Social Media Is Warping Democracy: Why It Feels Like Everything Is Going Haywire

Re:Social Media Is Warping Democracy: Why It Feels Like Ever... by papito on Tuesday November 12, 2019 @03:12PM (#21517649)

While I see your point, I also believe the sheer shameless lies were not possible before 2007, pre-mobile and pre-twitter. People would consume the info, slowly, and have time to process it. Now, the you know who says something like, "you know, that seems shady, someone should look into it", and leave it there. And then just burry that under another never-ending stream of lies.

I think both are really interlocked. Low barrier of entry = a flood of info = low attention spans as a defense mechanism to deal with it.

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Re:Social Media Is Warping Democracy: Why It Feels Like Ever... by smbowner on Tuesday November 12, 2019 @03:41PM (#21517951)

This is a really good point. The pace of shameless lying is so fast it's impossible to keep up.

Even if you're paying attention you can't keep it all straight in your head. You have to be a real time BS processing machine these days. And that simply isn't possible.

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