@AverageJoe
Average Joe
@AverageJoe · 4:40

Disinformation On The Web: The Greatest Virus?

And if it's global, we can only attribute that to the Internet. This tool that we thought would broaden our Horizons, educate, make information available so much more quickly has been misused so profoundly that it's made people mentally unwell and more and more. I can't help but think that is what has happened here, that somehow this spread of misinformation of conspiracy has literally distorted people's minds, their world view

Masks, Conspiracy, Cringe

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@Mtwadamela
Mtwadamela Ijogo
@Mtwadamela · 1:45
Man. Joe, those songs were f****** horrible. D***, who wins that's? That kind of left me speechless. But no, I don't think that the Internet, in and of itself is a virus is other voice virus. I just think the way that people use it because I'm of the mind that nothing in and of itself is inherently bad. Yeah
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@FryedOreo
Dewuan .
@FryedOreo · 4:21

Dis information is a fascinating study of mob mentality. @AverageJoe

Originally broadcasting internationally and worldwide. It was via the radio. We put a lot more faith in the news back then because the news didn't have to compete with ratings. It was paid by the government at that time. But Advertisers got on the trend, decided to make a good chunk of money. And then the corporations who were producing these broadcasts wanted that money too. So ratings are invented. So when it comes back to you and me, we'll be watching the news now
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@topgold
Bernie Goldbach
@topgold · 1:27

We need trust agents.

Average Joe rather swell and everyone else on the thread about virus disinformation and our current condition, a lot of what we do and what we think is influence of what we see and what we hear. And if after a few years of using connected culture, using the Internet using news feeds, people do not rely on trust agents to give them a quick sanity check about what they see or what they hear
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@omaniblog
Paul OMahony
@omaniblog · 3:43
You get your picture in the papers, you get to come back full of adrenaline, you get to feel your fighting other status quo. And you said there were a lot of ill people out there. Well, there are. We all know that. But all the people there are neurotic. At least a good lot of them are why do they join conspiracy theories, in my opinion, because they're an attractive alternative to what everybody else is thinking
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@dzakyem
Dzakye M
@dzakyem · 4:11

Notes and photo: http://shorturl.at/oxEJR

So I would say that masses can be indoctrinated and biased on a large scale, thanks to the media, there is nowadays that didn't exist in the past. Can you imagine that at Hitler's time, Mussolini's time they were indoctrinated, but without having the Internet, without having television and just barely the radio. And they managed to indoctrinate masses. So there is the fear that education can't reach the masses, that the masses can become unreasonable
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@topgold
Bernie Goldbach
@topgold · 2:34

@dzakyem respecting public service broadcasting

And I think the public opinion about the need for truly independent public broadcasting is starting to swing because of the realization by the common man, the guy that's sitting around the red hat on listening to stuff, the common man is starting to figure out that what they may hear in the places they've tuned in through news feeds they've maintained or simple stuff they see while waiting for the next round in the bar
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