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A comment on YouTube to remove content that alleges widespread election fraud. Parent comment

Re:YouTube to remove content that alleges widespread electio... by singlow on Wednesday December 09, 2020 @02:50PM (#25363651)
It's been a lot longer than a century. This is the natural order of things. Bertrand was not criticizing the media as much as he was pointing out its natural tendencies, which originate in the natural tendencies of humans. His solution was not to fix the media, it is to learn how to interpret it.
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Re:YouTube to remove content that alleges widespread electio... by sixothree on Wednesday December 09, 2020 @06:09PM (#25366698)
Learning how to interpret media means successfully defeating some of the best psychological tactics ever created. Bertrand didn't face these tactics and his methods are completely ineffectual at dealing with them.

"Learning how to interpret" the media is not even possible any longer.

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Re:YouTube to remove content that alleges widespread electio... by gnarlysasquatch on Thursday December 10, 2020 @01:54AM (#25370649)
What tactics?

Seems to me the age old skills of recognizing the source’s reputability still stand strong today. Many people just can’t be bothered to do it.

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