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Re:The Slow Death of Authenticity in an Attention Economy by jjoonathan on Friday October 27, 2023 @09:39AM (#38038291)
Here's a complaint about the printing press enabling the same dynamics:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yellow_journalism#/media/File:...

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Re:The Slow Death of Authenticity in an Attention Economy by trgn on Friday October 27, 2023 @09:45AM (#38038351)
Things can always get worse.
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Re:The Slow Death of Authenticity in an Attention Economy by imchillyb on Friday October 27, 2023 @10:01AM (#38038530)
The complaints about the printing press were _all of them_ valid.

We can look back at the age of the News Publication and see that the concerns of the few were not taken seriously. The lack of concern for those issues, is the same lack of concern over the issues of Social Media.

Those alarmists were _overwhelmingly_ correct in their concerns over mass produced print media.

Those same concerns should be placed with heavier weight on Social Media outlets.

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Re:The Slow Death of Authenticity in an Attention Economy by rchaud on Friday October 27, 2023 @07:07PM (#38045141)
Printing press spam was local, cost money to distribute, and not that many people were literate enough to bother. None of those are true of social media. $8/mo is nothing for a spammer charging $50 a pop for his AI mastery e-course.
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