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Re:Majority of US teens have lost trust in Big Tech by pjc50 on Thursday January 30, 2025 @09:13AM (#42877825)
What I've noticed is that people will identify some inaccuracy or failing in an institution, and then:

(a) immediately throw out the bathwater without checking for a baby: discredit all the output of the institution

(b) select an alternative source and then become completely credulous about it: discarding mainstream news for places like Infowars or Tiktok

(c) everyone is now in their own differently wrong bubble happily consuming all sorts of propaganda and grifter nonsense

The result is not an improvement, it's a low-trust society where you get things like an anti-vaxxer being appointed in charge of health.

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