The amount of disinformation, deep fakes, and other political misdirection I hear from from friends and relatives that they get from traditional social media is insane.
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The amount of disinformation, deep fakes, and other political misdirection I hear from from friends and relatives that they get from traditional social media is insane.
They have to tell me about it because I am almost always completely unaware, even though I am “on the Internet” just as much if not more than them.
This is a deep advantage of using the Mastodon/Fediverse right now. And it is not because fake stuff doesn’t exist here at all.
It is just not automatically sent to me by every owner, bot, and user. And if it is, it is generally swatted down hard.
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The amount of disinformation, deep fakes, and other political misdirection I hear from from friends and relatives that they get from traditional social media is insane.
They have to tell me about it because I am almost always completely unaware, even though I am “on the Internet” just as much if not more than them.
This is a deep advantage of using the Mastodon/Fediverse right now. And it is not because fake stuff doesn’t exist here at all.
It is just not automatically sent to me by every owner, bot, and user. And if it is, it is generally swatted down hard.
@chris at this point is appears commercial social media is literally financially dependent on the worst forms of scam...
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The amount of disinformation, deep fakes, and other political misdirection I hear from from friends and relatives that they get from traditional social media is insane.
They have to tell me about it because I am almost always completely unaware, even though I am “on the Internet” just as much if not more than them.
This is a deep advantage of using the Mastodon/Fediverse right now. And it is not because fake stuff doesn’t exist here at all.
It is just not automatically sent to me by every owner, bot, and user. And if it is, it is generally swatted down hard.
@chris It can be tough. I had someone tell me, with a straight face, that the reason Spanky met with Putin in Alaska was that Putin was blackmailing Spanky with proof that US fast food has human remains. Someone on YouTube said so.
I just can’t.
I actually looked the conspiracy theory up. It seems every year, for many years, a story comes up about fast food being tested & human remains being found in the meat. Followed by stories of food being tested just because, and, no. Of course.
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The amount of disinformation, deep fakes, and other political misdirection I hear from from friends and relatives that they get from traditional social media is insane.
They have to tell me about it because I am almost always completely unaware, even though I am “on the Internet” just as much if not more than them.
This is a deep advantage of using the Mastodon/Fediverse right now. And it is not because fake stuff doesn’t exist here at all.
It is just not automatically sent to me by every owner, bot, and user. And if it is, it is generally swatted down hard.
@chris It's all so tailored and personalized too. Just enough common between known social contacts of individuals to keep them all in the same bubble of bullshit.
Punch the monkey seems to be pretty universal though.
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The amount of disinformation, deep fakes, and other political misdirection I hear from from friends and relatives that they get from traditional social media is insane.
They have to tell me about it because I am almost always completely unaware, even though I am “on the Internet” just as much if not more than them.
This is a deep advantage of using the Mastodon/Fediverse right now. And it is not because fake stuff doesn’t exist here at all.
It is just not automatically sent to me by every owner, bot, and user. And if it is, it is generally swatted down hard.
@chris Also, there’s a lot of paranoia.
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@chris Also, there’s a lot of paranoia.
@Scienceisnotopinions fed by all of it!
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