I’ve been staying with my 80 year old dad for a week plus now and I have to say… for the still significant population that only has broadcast tv and doesn’t really use internet… I get why their view of reality is so warped. Add in his habit of filling time with talk radio and it’s worse.
Yes, conservative pre internet media is a source of disinformation. But BIG TECH is what really pushed us over the edge. The rise of social media (and now AI) strongly tracks with the rise of fascism all over the world. The solution is remove liability protection (Section 230) from BIG TECH.
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I mean yes that too but in this case the folks who are increasingly left behind by big tech are also being driven (even without the radio component) farther away by the small number of companies owning a LARGE amount of the market (e.g. Sinclair) since Reagan weaponized the FCC.
It's all a hydra.