explains why american politics is so dumb
Don’t blame them, when the average interaction on news sites is completely unwelcoming.
My thoughts entirely. One of my favorite ironies is The Washington Post saying “Democracy Dies in Darkness” as they prevent you from reading their news article without having a subscription.
My parents gets news from Wechat
So much “Taiwan Taiwan Taiwan”, “Democrats Ruin NYC” “ILLEGAL IMMIGRANT living in FREE HOTEL” 🤦♂️
Like calm down lmao, we aren’t even in China anymore, what’s the obsession with “reunification”, and like hate for dems is so weird, since their main opponent literally wants to kick us out.
When I used Reddit I got news from there. If news sites weren’t so fucking atrocious to use I might browse them directly. Plus, it’s not like legitimate news isn’t shared on social media. AP is generally considered pretty unbiased and reliable and they have a TikTok account.
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The new fascist propaganda machine. Algorithm controlled by the GOP and Trump cronies.
And that is the reason behind previous bans and current forced sale to US oligarchs.
And that would have been bad enough before Oracle started running the show. With Larry Ellison (a.k.a. Satan wearing a poorly tailored human meat-suit) deciding what people should be reading, it’s downright terminally moronic.
People are choosing stupidity
Is it because it’s easier than getting proper news from reputable sources or something?
People aren’t taught to use critical thinking skills anymore.
When they are, US Nazis puts a stop to it.
Getting news from reputable sources generally involves reading and ~25% of American adults are functionally illiterate.
Probably not the main cause of people turning to TikTok for news but if you drew a ven diagram of the two groups, I wouldn’t be shocked if there was an awful lot of overlap.
~25% of American adults are functionally illiterate
That ~25% of American adults is too dumb to deserve to vote. You should be able to show some kind of basic intelligence and common sense in order to have a say in how a country should be run – it should be based on merit. I even have a name for that: meritocracy!
His tweets have a 5th grade reading level, there’s a connection for sure. Even Facebook and Twitter and other social media requires some level of reading.
In general, media companies usually target a 5th grade reading level to ensure most can read and understand the stories.
His tweets definitely aren’t a 5th grade level, because they’re clearly below that level.
I think it’s just that a content creator, especially one with the ability to come off authentically, comes off as more trustworthy than a media corporation, even one well known for its trustworthiness.
Part of me misses my childhood local paper. Especially the game we played in middle school of finding the spelling and grammar errors. Honestly though I do think we need to have a revival of subscribing to local newspapers
the headline sounds fucking scary, but i wonder what the reality really is. i am in my fourties, i remember news being printed on the paper, and i understand the media world and what the difference is between trustworthy media and tabloid.
still, lemmy is often times the first place where i see specific news, esp. regarding us politics (i am from eu) - but i choose links to reputable sources (which is not that hard, because lot of times the same info is linked 5 times from the different sources) and verify if needed.
so “gets news from social networks” would sound more ominous than i think my reality is. i don’t have tiktok, so i have no idea what the reality is there.
Reddit or lemmy news related stuff is more similar to a potentially problematic curated RSS that happens to have a comment section than influencers giving the news.
Tiktok seems to lean more towards being a video sharing platform filled with aspiring content creators with followers who can get deeply infatuated with them and become their life coach in a sense than a RSS alternative.
So the least harmful impact of those types of platforms is making something like labubu become viral and explode in visibility and popularity, and the more harmful one being what lot of podcasters have done taking on the role of new anchors or science exports to their huge captive audience.
So if going back to the old days most similar thing would probably be getting all your news from what your neighbor Bob says.
My middle school social studies teacher used to give extra credit on things if we brought in a newspaper clipping with a spelling error circled. I didn’t understand until years later that getting us to read the paper was the goal, but it sure worked on me.
