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How Americans responded in 1955 when the invention of the polio vaccine was announced(feddit.org)

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DarkThoughts@fedia.io
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I think social media algorithms have fried people’s brains. Imagine we’d ban them, go back to content being kinda diverse and random, without adversaries able to game the system and push massive swaths of propaganda to people. The fact alone that most youths get their news from freaking TicTok of all places…

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infinite_ass@leminal.space
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If it’s propaganda to make people believe the truth, is it bad?

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stepan@lemmy.ca
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Depends who’s the arbiter of truth. Still propaganda

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DarkThoughts@fedia.io
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Interesting hypothetical, but not what’s happening.

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infinite_ass@leminal.space
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It’s a question. You know what a question is, right?

You people are so used to these weird games that every question must be an insinuation.

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Carighan Maconar@lemmy.world
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Why would anybody bad them, >50% in the US just voted to expand them massively and apply them ~everything. Oh and that money for the masses sucks versus money for grifters only, so I for one welcome Freedom Coin 2025 which rugpulls about 2 weeks after introduction.

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Pacattack57@lemmy.world
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You know your local news network has a TikTok right? There’s nothing wrong with news from social media. The problem is that media is unregulated and people are allowed to lie and pass off that information factual.

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DarkThoughts@fedia.io
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You know your local news network has a TikTok right?

That’s not what people watch though. People get their news from “influencers”, often time those with far right alignments, or straight from fascist parties who are the ones with the most reach on TicTok.

The problem is that media is unregulated and people are allowed to lie and pass off that information factual.

That’s literally what the free press is, and a fundamental pillar of a free and democratic society. Regulated media is censored media, and exactly what fascists want. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_of_the_press

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Pacattack57@lemmy.world
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Being “press” does not give you blanket protection from lies. Alex Jones just lost his company because he lied about Sandy Hook victims.

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