Stop Trusting Viral Videos

Re:Stop Trusting Viral Videos by Elof on Monday January 21, 2019 @08:25PM (#18965218)

The authors point about people generally trusting video as truth even though there is tons of nuance in all of the various ways the video is captured and produced is a good one.

I feel like a lot of the points in the article can apply more broadly to almost all polarizing viral content. In the information economy it often pays off to be unobjectibe and manipulative

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Re:Stop Trusting Viral Videos by cttet on Monday January 21, 2019 @09:42PM (#18965588)

> polarizing viral content

I feel like the points in the article can apply even more broadly to all content, especially the ones that with more "professional" language and good typography, which people naturally tends to trust more, like the Atlantic.

edit: formatting

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