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Re:Is this the end of social networking? by grecy on Thursday August 11, 2022 @09:58PM (#32433997)
> we basically don't have social media right now, we have advertising engines masquerading as social media

And that's been true of mainstream media for a long time also.

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Re:Is this the end of social networking? by dont__panic on Friday August 12, 2022 @08:40AM (#32437625)
Have you ever read Neil Postman's Amusing ourselves to Death? It doesn't quite hone in on the advertising engine piece of this, but I think it hits the nail right on the head about mainstream media's longtime masquerade as "news."
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