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marylandblue

(12,344 posts)
6. This is bigger than Facebook.
Sat May 25, 2019, 07:20 PM
May 2019

There are other sources than Facebook. There are fake newspaper sites. There's reddit, 4chan and Breitbart. There are private websites hosted in unfriendly countries. Plus the bots and video fakes are getting better.

So pretty soon you are going to have your trusted sources and all others will automatically be suspect. Except we will all have different sources and therefore we will have alternative facts with no way to reach someone who uses different sources. Can't run a democracy this way.

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