It's a bit of a self-sustaining cycle. Media depends on engagement, social media even more so. Hate engagement is capable of increasing engagement, and it's easier to create content that elicits hate engagement. Throw Internet Rando participation on top of that.
No, you should not quit social media. The beauty of it is that content that traditional media would never take a chance on which you would like to consume actually exists. What you should do is be mindful of what kind of content you choose to consume, and recognizing when content has an undesirable agenda beneath its surface. Content is not normally created for no purpose. Always ask "Why was this created? How does the creator intend for me to react to this? Is that an appropriate reaction?"
Just letting the content pour into your brain without consciously filtering it is a bad idea, and that's got nothing to do with social vs traditional media at all.
We all could drag everything through every court over and over until our victims are overwhelmed to the breaking point and give up if [people believed] we had the money to do it.
Now he doesn't even need money. He has the power of the US government to do it instead, all three branches, and the fourth estate. Other fascists are taking note and copycatting this style: do literally whatever you want, tie it up in the courts until you win, or if you somehow reach the end of that road without winning, ignore any consequences and start over from the beginning.
The third box has failed to secure liberty. Even if it inexplicably ends up securing liberty again, its Achilles' heel has been exposed. Like a 32-bit encryption key, it "works", but only if everyone agrees not to hack it. Anyone who doesn't can get away with literal murder.
He'll pay them their $9000 in Trump Coins. Then they can put that $6000 in Trump Coin into the crypto market of their choosing and trade it for $500 in any other cryptocurrency they want (less fees), or just cash it out for $3.50.
Long ago, I made a four line recursive HTML that did this with frames. Browsers didn’t have protection against that at the time, so if you opened it and let it run, your machine would lock up.
It's a bit of a self-sustaining cycle. Media depends on engagement, social media even more so. Hate engagement is capable of increasing engagement, and it's easier to create content that elicits hate engagement. Throw Internet Rando participation on top of that.
No, you should not quit social media. The beauty of it is that content that traditional media would never take a chance on which you would like to consume actually exists. What you should do is be mindful of what kind of content you choose to consume, and recognizing when content has an undesirable agenda beneath its surface. Content is not normally created for no purpose. Always ask "Why was this created? How does the creator intend for me to react to this? Is that an appropriate reaction?"
Just letting the content pour into your brain without consciously filtering it is a bad idea, and that's got nothing to do with social vs traditional media at all.