There has been much speculation about Mark Zuckerberg's recent "pivot" towards some Trumpy changes to Meta's content moderation policy and the removal of all fact-checking on his platforms-- and the constantly fluctuating state of TikTok has also got the social media world in an uproar, but I think it's time to do something more radical in this arena and rewrite Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act sop that platforms are responsible and can be sued over what they "publish"-- as they ARE publishers with proprietary algorithms that determine what goes viral-- and it's certainly not always accurate or innocuous stuff . . . it's not until we acknowledge that everything on social media is suspect, often a conspiratorial abyss, frequently misinformation and/or propaganda, and promoted in ways to merely keep users scrolling, not to provide the highest quality content and that perhaps our society would be more civilized and social without social media in its current form.
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That’s what it would have to become — the National Enquirer or professional wrestling, where everyone knows it’s a laughable joke and nobody takes it seriously except the loose-brained dimwits. It’s a bit of a journey to get there, though.
i think you need a trusted alternative-- like actual boxing and mma and college wrestling . . . or actual trusted newspapers and news-- but there seems to be no trusted alternative to tiktok/instagram . . .
Let’s invent one. TrustyGram.
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