Sarah Perez
11:39 AM PST · January 8, 2025

    • TimeSquirrel@kbin.melroy.org
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      1 day ago

      Back in my day we were perfectly capable of checking our own facts. A rare skill these days.

      I have an idea. Make it so every time you create a social media account, you have to check “agree” to a giant banner that says “if you take anything you see on here seriously, you are an idiot.”. That’s how we used to automatically treat things on the Internet at first glance.

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        That’s what I don’t get about people getting mad at the removal of “fact checkers”. Zuck was right in that they were uneducated and highly biased. Their “context” a lot of time was downright misleading. I never trusted them anyway because I don’t get my news from random people on the internet.