Reply To: The Searcher: Thoughts about Mart
Right now, I believe that many use social media as their news source. I’ve just finished reading “How to Stand Up to a Dictator”, and this book is an important read to further understand how media and information manipulation is happening on the most important platform used globally – FB. If we look at problematic, well-documented issues (2014 psychological experiments, Cambridge Analytica, modelling of Philippine elections, AI generated profiles), we can see that the masses are very easily controlled. FB truly is the most dangerous threat we face today. “I believe that Facebook represents one of the gravest threats to democracies around the world, and I am amazed that we have allowed our freedoms to be taken away by technology companies’ greed for growth and revenues.” MR, HTSUTAD.
We all do not share the same sources of information nor the same realities. And that is by design.
