It wasn’t totally hopeless until the last 15 years or so when the propaganda networks really took hold. Now the best you can hope for is a glimmer of light in between when your conversation ends and when they tune back in to Fox News
As bad as Fox news is, it’s not the real problem. People get their ‘news’ from social media now. Engagement optimized algorithms have found that outrage is the best way to keep people scrolling. The social media companies’ incentives are to stoke division so ‘line go up’. Fox news feeds some of the garbage onto the pile, but the way we have societal conversations is broken because of the profit incentives.
It wasn’t totally hopeless until the last 15 years or so when the propaganda networks really took hold. Now the best you can hope for is a glimmer of light in between when your conversation ends and when they tune back in to Fox News
As bad as Fox news is, it’s not the real problem. People get their ‘news’ from social media now. Engagement optimized algorithms have found that outrage is the best way to keep people scrolling. The social media companies’ incentives are to stoke division so ‘line go up’. Fox news feeds some of the garbage onto the pile, but the way we have societal conversations is broken because of the profit incentives.