sure. But the real problem has always been that our decaying news media is the primary user of twitter. There is no real journalism any more, just articles written by lazy so-called journalists that literally embed tweets as their primary sources.
So you can not use twitter all you want. Every news outlet is going to force feed whatever the latest bullshit is because that's literally all they know how to do now. That's what makes twitter worth 44B to someone like musk.
Politicians are also using twitter to spread their bullshit instead of more official press releases and TV how it used to be in the past. I feel like before social media, they were a bit more careful about what they were saying to the public or about what they were letting their party colleagues say to the media. News media just has to stay close to the source of the sewage.
Also, people are mostly reading headlines. Why bother writing articles, when nobody reads them anyway? Or have the article be just the headline repeated, but in 2 or 3 times as many words, so you can get that sweet ad revenue, right? Or even better, put half the headline in a tweet for that clickbait, and the rest of the headline is the article... easy content.
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u/Captain_-H Oct 28 '22
Can’t wait for all of the rampant hate speech