I think the lack of trust goes directly to how effective is the social media. I think people re-post stuff not because they think it is accurate, but because it "owns" their political opposition... but what they actually believe that sends them to the ballot box is from other sources identified in this study. And consider that older peop…
I think the lack of trust goes directly to how effective is the social media. I think people re-post stuff not because they think it is accurate, but because it "owns" their political opposition... but what they actually believe that sends them to the ballot box is from other sources identified in this study. And consider that older people that tend to vote Republican trust social media even less than do younger people that tend to vote Democrat, and it is the Democrats primarily demanding censorship of social media content.
More concerning to me than social media, and this is played out over and over again with my friends that are not as well read and get their news and information from the mainstream media, is that the mainstream media is full of primarily Democrat-biased information to the point that it is really Democrat propaganda. And we also have critical social justice indoctrination, woke if you will, infesting healthcare and science... two areas with a lot of trust.
It is interesting about Haidt. He is on this kick that social media is responsible for all sort of social decay and negative health outcomes. I argue that social media is just a conduit for it to be more viral, but the decay is coming from our traditional institutions beginning with the education system.
"I argue that social media is just a conduit for it to be more viral:
If you're arguing that social media is a conduit for "social decay and negative health outcomes" to be more viral, aren't you, at the very least, arguing against social media? We can debate root causes, obviously social media doesn't operate in a vacuum, but the virality is a problem all by itself, no?
This is like arguing that the problem with AIDS isn't lots of people having unprotected sex, but the virus itself. You're not entirely wrong, but you might be missing an important point.
I think the lack of trust goes directly to how effective is the social media. I think people re-post stuff not because they think it is accurate, but because it "owns" their political opposition... but what they actually believe that sends them to the ballot box is from other sources identified in this study. And consider that older people that tend to vote Republican trust social media even less than do younger people that tend to vote Democrat, and it is the Democrats primarily demanding censorship of social media content.
More concerning to me than social media, and this is played out over and over again with my friends that are not as well read and get their news and information from the mainstream media, is that the mainstream media is full of primarily Democrat-biased information to the point that it is really Democrat propaganda. And we also have critical social justice indoctrination, woke if you will, infesting healthcare and science... two areas with a lot of trust.
It is interesting about Haidt. He is on this kick that social media is responsible for all sort of social decay and negative health outcomes. I argue that social media is just a conduit for it to be more viral, but the decay is coming from our traditional institutions beginning with the education system.
"I argue that social media is just a conduit for it to be more viral:
If you're arguing that social media is a conduit for "social decay and negative health outcomes" to be more viral, aren't you, at the very least, arguing against social media? We can debate root causes, obviously social media doesn't operate in a vacuum, but the virality is a problem all by itself, no?
This is like arguing that the problem with AIDS isn't lots of people having unprotected sex, but the virus itself. You're not entirely wrong, but you might be missing an important point.