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[–] Gnumile@lemmy.ca 2 points 5 days ago (1 children)

That's not a fair comparison at all. There are more steps to something getting published in a newspaper, magazine, etc. vs showing up on a social media site. The amount of users and content generated on social media does not allow for the same kind of scrutiny, definitely not in a reasonable way.

[–] ininewcrow@lemmy.ca 2 points 5 days ago

I agree that it isn't an equal comparison of content generation .... but it is a significant content vehicle. Take a look around and talk to everyone around you, most if not everyone you and I know get all their news and information from some sort of social media. Most people under the age of 30 don't even read a paper newspaper any more let alone go visit a news website to read an article. They get all their information from some dumb post that shows up in their social media feed .... a social media feed careful curated and controlled by a mega-corporation that wants to control the narrative in society. It's essentially like having someone like Musk or Zuckerberg being the editors of all the information that everyone consumes. There's something wrong with that.

We would never allow one mega corporation control everyone and all newspapers across Canada ... but we find it perfectly acceptable when we call it social media.