*hopeless laughter*
https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/news-influencers-social-media-pew-report-rcna179786?origin=serp_auto
Discussion
I get my news from Nostr and Bitcoin podcasts. Am I any better? 🤔
At least it's not state sponsored propaganda.
Bad information can now be directly piped into your eyeballs based on an algorithm determining what most likely gets your dopamine flowing.
And humans just become conditioned to believing this is how information works, creating a feedback loop.
It's not quite the dark ages, because the dark ages weren't AWARE of how shit the information is, but we are. We know we're in the dark. And its actually less comforting than not knowing.
