While this article raises an important point it is delusional when it bemoans losing 'fact checking.' Let me remind that fact checking was the platform for propaganda and censoring by government and in collusion with large corporate interests. The Biden administration spent $$$millions (if not $$$billions) to control the public narrative and information about the fraudulent mRNA and covid debacle. It was used to promote the US funded proxy war using Ukraine against Russia. Under Biden there was increased funding of US government agencies for surveillance, and control especially of our personal finances. Biden also promoted shutting down Tik Tok, not for wrong information but specifically for the public's access to information about the US funded Israeli genocide and ethnic cleansing of Palestinians from their homeland as well as the ability to see in real time and visually the horrors of what was being done. Remember that much of that information from the IDF soldiers themselves bragging about the nefarious brutality they gleefully performed daily! Israel's response has been to promote the consolidation of the entertainment world by people like Larry Ellison buying TV stations and Hollywood film companies to promote pro-Zionist propaganda while trying to eliminate any alternative perspectives. Mondoweiss had a very good article just today detailing this pro-Israel, Zionist takeover of our media.
I am sick of liberals promoting the very fascism they rail against as if they are somehow more ethical and righteous. They are not! People need to wake up and call out this hipocracy.
There's no cure for willful ignorance, but most of us are too busy for the vetting. Since reports are necessarily subjective, I follow several news feeds.
Keep the masses fighting each other so we don’t focus on the billionaires. In Australia the government is banning social media for under 16’s. Together with a ban on mobile phones in schools I hope this is a new beginning to stop the madness
I noticed something. When I get notifications from substack that someone has "liked" a comment. I usually get that account name. But when you Qasim "like" a comment. For some reason the notification goes straight to the junkmail.
Now that I’ve read the article, I can understand how digital gerrymandering works. The technological advances that we have at our disposal have proven to be our undoing as an honest, compassionate, considerate, generous species. Instead it has driven so many to expose the hatred, fear, and greed that lies beneath so many of the misuses of technology. Think about how polluted our air, water, and soil are. It’s in the name of technology and trying to achieve milestones before other nations do. And so now, here we are with AI taking over in ways we only imagined could be. So I tend to find myself wondering if content that I’m engaging in is indeed credible. Wow, this was longer than I intended, yikes, lol.
Knowing the mechanism for fact checking, and even knowing that we *should* fact check are less important than developing the mindset that when we are sure of something, it’s a limbic reaction and we should shift into a curious one.
I know I've lost perspective of reality. The news whether MSM or Independent reads surreal most of the time as if I'm tripping on a hallucinagen. It seems so surreal it has numbed me from being able to grasp the reality within and respond rationally. How do you all deal with our current dystopian reality.
I am horrified that you would even mention 'fact checking' on social media as that was always and only a project supporting censorship of any information that contradicted the corporate/government policies. This was massively revved up with $$$$$ millions under Biden to censor anything questioning the covid debacle and actively attacking medical doctors and researchers, especially whistleblowers who had worked on the inside of these pharmaceutical corporations revealing much of their so-called research being fraudulent. This was true under Biden with those who did not buy the govt b.s. about Ukraine making the facts about US support of the Nazi Azov brigade which murdered 14,000 Russian Ukrainians in the west of that country disappear. Even denying this information which anyone could easily find online. The GOP is just as censorious with the same kind of lies that are called facts. The current attack on Kennedy at HHS is more of the same corporate attacks on someone who have spent decades fighting these corporations lies and their harmful tactics that are causing massive illness in the population and destroying the environment. All this goes under the name of fact checking when, in fact, it is simply mass propaganda using social and legacy media to protect the greed of nefarious corporations and government agencies and leaders who are well bought off by these corporations.
This has been happening for a very long time, both by media companies and more likely by news followers themselves. My reading is guided by more sane media sources that maintain a balanced view. I tend to ignore wack-a-doodle coverage of both liberal and conservative. On occasion, I dip my toes into the wack-a-doodles to stay grounded and even get a laugh. I also include foreign news sources.
Digital gerrymandering is the part no one wants to admit they’ve fallen for. It’s like the algorithm sneaks into your house at night and redraws your living room so you only ever see the couch you already agree with. The more polarized the feed gets, the more it feels like we’re all being herded into little ideological terrariums. Appreciate you naming it. Democracy can’t run on customized realities.
While this article raises an important point it is delusional when it bemoans losing 'fact checking.' Let me remind that fact checking was the platform for propaganda and censoring by government and in collusion with large corporate interests. The Biden administration spent $$$millions (if not $$$billions) to control the public narrative and information about the fraudulent mRNA and covid debacle. It was used to promote the US funded proxy war using Ukraine against Russia. Under Biden there was increased funding of US government agencies for surveillance, and control especially of our personal finances. Biden also promoted shutting down Tik Tok, not for wrong information but specifically for the public's access to information about the US funded Israeli genocide and ethnic cleansing of Palestinians from their homeland as well as the ability to see in real time and visually the horrors of what was being done. Remember that much of that information from the IDF soldiers themselves bragging about the nefarious brutality they gleefully performed daily! Israel's response has been to promote the consolidation of the entertainment world by people like Larry Ellison buying TV stations and Hollywood film companies to promote pro-Zionist propaganda while trying to eliminate any alternative perspectives. Mondoweiss had a very good article just today detailing this pro-Israel, Zionist takeover of our media.
I am sick of liberals promoting the very fascism they rail against as if they are somehow more ethical and righteous. They are not! People need to wake up and call out this hipocracy.
There's no cure for willful ignorance, but most of us are too busy for the vetting. Since reports are necessarily subjective, I follow several news feeds.
No receipt, no value.
Keep the masses fighting each other so we don’t focus on the billionaires. In Australia the government is banning social media for under 16’s. Together with a ban on mobile phones in schools I hope this is a new beginning to stop the madness
We have work to do for the midterms. The gerrymanders like in TN-07 must be neutered.
https://hotbuttons.substack.com/p/uneven-playing-field?r=3m1bs
I noticed something. When I get notifications from substack that someone has "liked" a comment. I usually get that account name. But when you Qasim "like" a comment. For some reason the notification goes straight to the junkmail.
Now that I’ve read the article, I can understand how digital gerrymandering works. The technological advances that we have at our disposal have proven to be our undoing as an honest, compassionate, considerate, generous species. Instead it has driven so many to expose the hatred, fear, and greed that lies beneath so many of the misuses of technology. Think about how polluted our air, water, and soil are. It’s in the name of technology and trying to achieve milestones before other nations do. And so now, here we are with AI taking over in ways we only imagined could be. So I tend to find myself wondering if content that I’m engaging in is indeed credible. Wow, this was longer than I intended, yikes, lol.
Knowing the mechanism for fact checking, and even knowing that we *should* fact check are less important than developing the mindset that when we are sure of something, it’s a limbic reaction and we should shift into a curious one.
I know I've lost perspective of reality. The news whether MSM or Independent reads surreal most of the time as if I'm tripping on a hallucinagen. It seems so surreal it has numbed me from being able to grasp the reality within and respond rationally. How do you all deal with our current dystopian reality.
Happy Holidays
I am horrified that you would even mention 'fact checking' on social media as that was always and only a project supporting censorship of any information that contradicted the corporate/government policies. This was massively revved up with $$$$$ millions under Biden to censor anything questioning the covid debacle and actively attacking medical doctors and researchers, especially whistleblowers who had worked on the inside of these pharmaceutical corporations revealing much of their so-called research being fraudulent. This was true under Biden with those who did not buy the govt b.s. about Ukraine making the facts about US support of the Nazi Azov brigade which murdered 14,000 Russian Ukrainians in the west of that country disappear. Even denying this information which anyone could easily find online. The GOP is just as censorious with the same kind of lies that are called facts. The current attack on Kennedy at HHS is more of the same corporate attacks on someone who have spent decades fighting these corporations lies and their harmful tactics that are causing massive illness in the population and destroying the environment. All this goes under the name of fact checking when, in fact, it is simply mass propaganda using social and legacy media to protect the greed of nefarious corporations and government agencies and leaders who are well bought off by these corporations.
Good analysis/info. But so bloody depressing.
This has been happening for a very long time, both by media companies and more likely by news followers themselves. My reading is guided by more sane media sources that maintain a balanced view. I tend to ignore wack-a-doodle coverage of both liberal and conservative. On occasion, I dip my toes into the wack-a-doodles to stay grounded and even get a laugh. I also include foreign news sources.
Digital gerrymandering is the part no one wants to admit they’ve fallen for. It’s like the algorithm sneaks into your house at night and redraws your living room so you only ever see the couch you already agree with. The more polarized the feed gets, the more it feels like we’re all being herded into little ideological terrariums. Appreciate you naming it. Democracy can’t run on customized realities.