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Ryuu96 said:

LegitHyperbole said:

Kojima was right. The Internet needs an AI to take control as a neutral third party and parse the information, I can't believe he predicted this in 2001 before the Internet even had it's significant boom. I don't know what we are going to do but this amount of information, factual or not is a real threat. I don't know if up is down anymore, the only winning move seems to not engage.

Just wait a day or two, do your own research, re-confirm multiple times with different sources. Twitter is the worst place for misinformation...I could make a tweet that my neighbour ate my dog and I'd probably find thousands of people believing and sharing it, Lol. You just have to be vigilant and follow only trusted sources, anyone who spreads bullshit gets removed from my credible list.

Twitter is a cesspool of cynicism.

it wasn’t conceived of being used that way. Co-founder of Blogger and Medium, Evan Williams, conceived as a Microblogging counterpart to the long form Blogger (Medium was more of a higher quality article focused platform). Some people actually use it for that. Examples include news/announcements for various media (games, TV, films), artists and authors posting bits of their work, and the Milblogger posts that get posted frequently to this forum in the Ukraine and Palestine threads.

But the main thing it’s used for is a place where people act out cynicism to the extreme. This manifests as cancel culture, virtue signalling, harassing creators (TV show cast and crew are popular targets), accusing others of some verb used as an adjective (woke and cringe), and spreading misinformation to make people hate other groups of people. That’s why (long before Elon Musk) I wasn’t a fan of Twitter - although, for a time, I did use it to some degree of success as a means to drive people to my business; like Facebook Pages, that went down the shitter.