Yet, search YouTube for anything newsworthy and you only see mainstream media these days. I don't want establishment bs, give me something different.
>We get our news from reddit
Things I learned from reddit:
>Rapes only happen in India
Does reddit filter news about rape in other countries? Because there is plenty to take from just by looking in the crime section in local Danish news. This might be one of the more bizarre biases of reddit.
>The US will soon collapse and Europe needs to prepare
I have been hearing this one since 2011. I am still waiting for American boat refugees.
>Chinese tourists are the worst thing since the killing of Harambe
It seems like reddit can only avoid being racist against a small handful of groups that they care about right now like Black Americans and Muslims. Anyone else is free game. Especially Chinese and Indian people.
If you're not careful, you can fall into the same traps with social media as with mainstream media: 1. getting reporting from people who lack context on the issues, or 2. getting a distorted view of which issues are important.
“JFK clone weds two-headed space alien” is better TV than “Fed announces 1.2% jobs growth in September,” but I hope that in time you start seeking out facts over entertainment.
You could call them on their BS then only because you have internet too. When it comes to other sources mass media do no better job. You just can't see that easily how crappy they are in approximating the truth.
I’ve noticed people who only watch “real news” tend to have very homogenous anxieties and information about the state of the world that is rarely the most pressing or complete view.
I deleted TikTok after a week because anticorona was so popular.
A guy only posted stuff which was fitting his narrative and ignored basic logic for his videos.
He also didn't care at all when I pointed out the issues of his 'reseqrch'.
He posted a study saying that they had issues correlating corona measurements to corona numbers. Eve the researchers and the study itself concluded that it doesn't say Corona measurements are not working they only stated that they were not able to determine the right reasons but postulated why like that talking about measurements can have an effect etc.
He used the study to conclude that Corona measurements are useless!
This is super dangerous and crazy that other people like his videos and get their broken narrative supported.
He is literally part of the probl of missinformation.
He also posted a video from a ex vice president for allergies from Pfizer who worked there 10 years ago and knows nothing about Corona who talks about how crazy and wrong it is.
This guy trusts some dude who is not an expert more than real experts.
I have never could have imagined that it would ever be a problem to allow any person uneducated or not to just freely communicate stuff to someone else.
But this is so ridiculously braindead.
I don't even want to accept anymore that it's okay for someone to not get vaccinated because of their opinion. They are probably not able to properly determine if it makes sense.
Start listing to normal and known media again pls! Listen to experts in their fields first!
Always be critical but do not believe anyone else just because you like more what they say.
We are doomed.
And this in a nutshell is why I don't have hope for your and future generations. Instead of researched and published stuff you prefer "news" from unknown sources (including nefarious state actors)
Let’s be honest, most of the “research and published stuff” is also crap. The majority is built out of reposting things from those “untrustworthy” places, or from “interviewing experts”, that 9 out of 10 times are tangentially linked to the issue.
News has always been more about entertainment than getting information.
And this is why our world is so messed up now, too many older people believing something just because it was it was in the papers or on TV.
For example young Hoatzin birds have wing claws like archeopteryx and use them for climbing branches in unbirdlike manner.