Social: Frequently shared photos are misleading
A misleading image is shared to indicate that cities used to be beautiful and now they are ugly.
Social: Telling a straight up lie for propaganda
Photos of people sunbathing are presented as an illustration of lazy American workers, cutting work. But that is not what the photos show – in fact, its college students just after the spring semester ended.
Censorship: Google admits they censored speech at request of Biden administration
Google will now restore accounts they had censored and/or shut down at request of the Biden adminstration.
Propaganda works by combining believable info into untrue conclusions
An online meme notes that the % of “married”, “homeowners” is low. It is a real decline but they’ve combined 2 independent variables to make it look worse.
Social media is all fake – and its use is dying
Most everything on social media, especially involving influencers, is fake.
Social media propaganda poster has several errors
Another propaganda poster that is sort of embarrassing.
Media: ABC Reporter criticized for on-air remarks
ABC News reporter’s comments on Kirk assassin came across awkwardly – he has since apologized.
Are you being misled by emotional social media stories?
How fake emotional stories are being used for engagement farming on social media.
Media: CBS news shows old Soyuz launch while reporting on SpaceX Falcon9 launch
This is why reporters should have relevant training in the subjects they report upon – instead of “Senior Science” reporters being English Lit majors.
Today I deleted the Instagram app from my phone
Social media is dead. I was just late to figure that out. This week I deleted multiple social media accounts or apps.