Daily Take: What Will Be the Impact of Social Media Plunging Us Further into a Post-Truth Crisis?
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Thom Hartmann
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🗓️ 8 January 2025
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| 1:07.5 | What will be the impact of social media plunging us further into a post-truth crisis? |
| 1:14.4 | Met as CEO Mark Zuckerberg, wearing an $800,000 watch, announced yesterday morning that across their over 7 billion users strong social media empire, Facebook, Instagram, threads, |
| 1:20.5 | WhatsApp, they'll be dialing back on fact checking. They're also preparing to promote more |
| 1:25.2 | political content, among other changes that support those two moves, |
| 1:29.0 | like no longer filtering out trash-talking content about queer people or immigrants |
| 1:34.9 | and moving what's left of their trust and safety team from liberal California to conservative Texas. |
| 1:41.7 | Here's the problem. |
| 1:42.9 | Republican politicians rely on lies, distortions, and falsehoods to sell |
| 1:47.9 | most of their policies and candidates. They must do this because the reality of their actual goals, |
| 1:56.1 | you know, cutting billionaire taxes, increasing pollution, gutting worker and consumer protections, defund schools |
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