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.
Are you being misled by emotional social media stories?
How fake emotional stories are being used for engagement farming on social media.
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.
Media: Larry Ellison’s comments on reporters
Yes, Larry Ellison did suggest reporters are stupid.
Rep. Clay Higgins calls for censorship of all social media platforms
Rep. Clay Higgins seeks Federal censorship of all tech platforms, a violation of the First Amendment.