In an age where social media amplifies misinformation and disinformation, how can individuals and communities better discern credible news sources from misleading content, especially in political discourse?
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That’s a tough one to deal with, people love ugly and the more outrageous something is the more people gravitate to it. Look how divided Antigua is because of politics. I have one suggestion get rid of the Lickspittle Brigade
Is everything that goes against the governments prevailing narrative dis/mis-information? Who decides what is the truth? Were people told that taking a covid vaccines would prevent infection and get us to herd immunity; was that true? Why haven’t the people who said this admit they were wrong? Why are they silent on excess and sudden deaths since the vaccine roll out?
Is there evidence out there that shows the vaccines have and are causing deaths? Why aren’t we hearing about this evidence? Why did governments coerced social media platforms to censor information that opposed their narrative? Scientists, medical professionals such as the inventor of the mRNA technology Dr. Robert Malone were all censored. Why did the media push the narrative that ivermectin was only used as a horse dewormer when it was FDA approved since 1998 for human consumption; why didn’t the media tell the public there are two different formulations of the drug, one for humans and one for animals?
The media can’t be trusted if they’re only going to spout governments narratives. Credible media sources reports both sides of a contentious argument. Social media made it possible for people to get more information on the jabs and their potential dangers than what the media was pushing. Most of the mainstream media are big [p]harma shills.
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I’ll be shocked if this comment gets posted. 😂
This question is a bit biased and actually illustrates why the mainstream media is untrusted. Firstly, where is the evidence that social media amplifies mis and disinformation any more than it amplifies factual information? There is lots of useful and educational information in social media. E.g. I have learned so much about what life is like for everyday people on the ground in countries around the world via social media. This includes for instance the many countries in Africa that I knew little about from traditional mainstream media, which typically just showed random huts in the jungle and people doing
traditional dances to represent that entire continent. So, social media amplifies all kinds of information and actually counters lots of previous held wrong assumptions about various underrepresented parts of the world. Similarly, social media gives a voice to multiple viewpoints on most topics. Thus, nothing needs to be done about social media. As with any media, it is up to each person to evaluate all of the information and form their own judgement. Mainstream media has actually lost its previously unbiased stance. The mainstream media also no longer seeks out enough information on all topics to allow the audience to weigh the evidence fairly on controversial issues. Little effort is made to give fairly equal airplay to opposing viewpoints and let the audience decide. Instead, most media outlets today are biased and are proud of their biases. In fact, they believe that it is virtuous to hold the positions that they hold and that they are changing the world by pushing their views onto others. Often they are following a select set of “experts” and their opinions. However, life is complicated and even “expert” opinions are not true in every situation. People naturally don’t like it when other people try to do their thinking and make their decisions for them so they will naturally steer away from that. Mainstream media needs to learn to respect the rights of individual adults in society to make up their own minds whether they come to 100% correct conclusions right away or not – that’s their own business. Society can function just fine letting adults be adults instead of trying to infantilise and control them.
Well said @ Cannabis Indica, as always, you speak ‘Truth to Power’.
YOU ALMOST MADE ME RECONSIDER TO RESTART POSTING ON ANR AGAIN 😁
Maybe I should return once more, to destabilise the Gastonites; ABLP acolytes; lickspittlers and Kowtowing sycophants, because honest politics done in Antigua & Barbuda. Done!
These political vultures who smile to your face and then chat ah whole heap ah nonsense, does not necessarily mean Antiguans well.
Annu every kin teet’ ah laugh wid you …