Not trying to make a political statement here but isn’t it ridiculous that we’ve reached a point where we find a need to protect the public from information posted to a platform that started as a way to share vacation pictures, contact past acquaintances, stay in touch with family members, etc. Now this platform has somehow turned into the “end all” for news and we need to protect the users from construing the posted information as fact and not entertainment. Here’s a novel thought – the Russians never influenced my political decisions because I didn’t use FB as my “go to” source. Red or Blue – we should all be embarrassed.
It’s even worse than that. FB was designed as a way for college students to keep track of each other and set up meetings and dates. You had to have a .edu email address to sign up. Pictures of wild parties, sappy love letter statuses, and cringy passive aggressive notes about friends and roommates were the norm.
Being a millennial, I grew up hearing my parents warning me to not believe everything you see online and not trust things without outside sources. The irony is that my generation looks at everything posted online with suspicion while our parents believe whatever their cousin’s former roommate posts.
Not trying to make a political statement here but isn’t it ridiculous that we’ve reached a point where we find a need to protect the public from information posted to a platform that started as a way to share vacation pictures, contact past acquaintances, stay in touch with family members, etc. Now this platform has somehow turned into the “end all” for news and we need to protect the users from construing the posted information as fact and not entertainment. Here’s a novel thought – the Russians never influenced my political decisions because I didn’t use FB as my “go to” source. Red or Blue – we should all be embarrassed.
It’s even worse than that. FB was designed as a way for college students to keep track of each other and set up meetings and dates. You had to have a .edu email address to sign up. Pictures of wild parties, sappy love letter statuses, and cringy passive aggressive notes about friends and roommates were the norm.
Being a millennial, I grew up hearing my parents warning me to not believe everything you see online and not trust things without outside sources. The irony is that my generation looks at everything posted online with suspicion while our parents believe whatever their cousin’s former roommate posts.
what is false/misleading information? Fauci can’t even decide whether masks protect or not, he has publicly stated both sides authoritatively.
You are the problem.