Who decides what is a conspiracy theory and what is truth?

[shiv]

 

[Shawn_Michaels]

WaPo/NYT/CNN

 

[Sgfeer]

 

[Long cat]

WaPo/NYT/CNN

Facebook, Twitter, YouTube have a much broader reach

 

[ttyh]

We are the news.

 

[BigBucnNole]

I like this article. These guys are New American Century. Basically want commissars.

The Need to Inoculate Military Servicemembers Against Information Threats: The Case For Digital Literacy Training for the Force - War on the Rocks

Every minute of every day, men and women in uniform are attacked by a weapon that threatens them, their services, and the nation. Yet the U.S. military

warontherocks.com

 

[ajcgn]

Johnny Cash?

 

[America 1st]

 

[Cincinattus91]

Just in terms of volume/ratings which mainstream publication/ website gets the most hits?

I'd be curious to see all MM viewership plus Wapo and NYT circulation vs hits on vice, vox, buzzfeed. It's all apart of the same animal but interested in which limb carries the most muscle

 

[Long cat]

Just in terms of volume/ratings which mainstream publication/ website gets the most hits?

I'd be curious to see all MM viewership plus Wapo and NYT circulation vs hits on vice, vox, buzzfeed. It's all apart of the same animal but interested in which limb carries the most muscle

I think twitter and Facebook screw with people’s minds like no other. These are targeted, data driven apps that are designed to 1. Get you addicted and then 2. Push the narrative that they want you to see as effectively as possible while limiting dissenting opinions that are likely to influence a person. It is crazy to me that people go for it, but here I am posting on a spin off message board from a college football recruiting message board so who am I to talk.

 

[UNC71-00]

I think twitter and Facebook screw with people’s minds like no other. These are targeted, data driven apps that are designed to 1. Get you addicted and then 2. Push the narrative that they want you to see as effectively as possible while limiting dissenting opinions that are likely to influence a person. It is crazy to me that people go for it, but here I am posting on a spin off message board from a college football recruiting message board so who am I to talk.

For starters, no one is censoring what you say here, which is why we all abandoned ship from the other site.

But you are right, social media is a drug of sorts. Posting something- anything- and getting dopamine hits when random people click “like” is a real addiction for lots of people.

 

[Cincinattus91]

I think twitter and Facebook screw with people’s minds like no other. These are targeted, data driven apps that are designed to 1. Get you addicted and then 2. Push the narrative that they want you to see as effectively as possible while limiting dissenting opinions that are likely to influence a person. It is crazy to me that people go for it, but here I am posting on a spin off message board from a college football recruiting message board so who am I to talk.

Great point. People will seemingly always choose friends and fitting in over truth

Gets to the importance of narrative

Somebody posts some vapid, ridiculous, infantile message and it gets dozens of likes

Others post a thoughtful or scrutinizing message and gets nothing

Would love to know the breakdown between the true believers vs the bandwagoners

 

[hmt5000]

Just in terms of volume/ratings which mainstream publication/ website gets the most hits?

I'd be curious to see all MM viewership plus Wapo and NYT circulation vs hits on vice, vox, buzzfeed. It's all apart of the same animal but interested in which limb carries the most muscle

But a lot of those other places get their storyline from NYT and wapo editorial pages.... not the news sections.

 

[Sikness23245]

The same people that created the term "conspiracy theory".

 

[Cincinattus91]

But a lot of those other places get their storyline from NYT and wapo editorial pages.... not the news sections.

True. With their advantages, they can only escalate the absurdity which is their downfall