I’m old enough to remember news before and after the internet.
Look, it wasn’t great before. Everything the public learned was filtered through a specific, flawed point of view.
But you’d have to be an idiot to think move to FB news has been positive overall to democracy.
Look, it wasn’t great before. Everything the public learned was filtered through a specific, flawed point of view.
But you’d have to be an idiot to think move to FB news has been positive overall to democracy.
2/ The positives are sub communities have been able to create well-informed, specialty niches. Mainstream press didn’t understand tech, queer culture, videogames or even EDM. We have excellent news on all those subjects now.
3/ But the negatives, to my mind, far outstrip them.
The human mind is simply wired to click news we already agree with. We’re overdosing on trash, confirmation bias and disinformation.
Consensus is all but impossible.
The human mind is simply wired to click news we already agree with. We’re overdosing on trash, confirmation bias and disinformation.
Consensus is all but impossible.
4/ Elno’s vision of Twitter as “open sourcing the news” isn’t wholly without merit. I remain convinced #ferguson never would’ve been a story without Twitter.
But, anyone who can’t see the other side of that equation is not living in reality.
But, anyone who can’t see the other side of that equation is not living in reality.
5/ The death of fact checking, editorial standards or the public asking ourselves if a source is credible could very well be the end of this country.
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