False claims about the latest Israel-Hamas war are flooding social media, making it difficult for onlookers to sort fact from fiction. Here are the facts: Nimrod Aloni, a top general in the Israeli army, was not captured by Hamas militants.
  • Umbrias@beehaw.org
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    1 year ago

    While true, it’s a false equivalence. Getting news from multiple news sources is less controllable of you than getting your news from ‘multiple sources’ filtered through social media algorithms targeting you.

    Further, you can often browse news in a private fashion. You can be fingerprinted, sure, but it’s easier to mitigate with multiple news sources than fingerprinting in social media, especially when you get to accounts on both. And lets be realistic, someone getting their news from tik tok is being tracked hard in ways they would have no way of predicting from multiple data sources and with phone information that they don’t realize they are providing.

    Someone watching CNN or fox news or abcnews or what have you is not even close to being manipulated in the same way, even if they are being provided a biased data set.

    Social media news is the worst of both worlds.