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Re:Elon Musk makes $43B unsolicited bid to take Twitter private by Veen on Thursday April 14, 2022 @01:28PM (#31030214)
On that we can agree. Social media is a scourge. But it's also true that people believed crazy things before social media.
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Re:Elon Musk makes $43B unsolicited bid to take Twitter private by kadoban on Thursday April 14, 2022 @01:40PM (#31030382)
They did, but a more manageable dose. The current amount and effectiveness of disinformation is making society itself unstable.

Education could be a big part of it as well, not even teaching people what's correct but how to figure it out.

Income inequality isn't exactly helping either. Many people will believe any noisy asshole if their life sucks enough.

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