the Internet “is both the world’s best fact-checker and the world’s best bias confirmer – often at the same time.”
I feel like this is an ironic statement, given that the internet is now also a great cause of the world's false information that needs to be fact checked. It is an interesting note to think that the balance in the internet is seemingly on how it helps show the facts and spread misinformation at the same time.
The more our eyeballs remain glued to the screen, the more ads they can show us, and the greater profits accrue to their shareholders.
It feels like advertisements have taken over everything. And you can't blame the places that use ads to earn revenue, it has become a large source of profit for tons of businesses. But at the end of the day, it is irritating as a viewer or reader to see ads pop up everywhere, overwhelmingly dictating the experience.
a sense of duty to be informed and feeling the news helps them learn new things are tied for the top motivation for consuming news among under 35s
This is interesting to learn that there are still a vast majority of millennials and Gen Z that want to stay informed through the news. But I wonder where they believe the best news comes from, among those below the age of 35.
On TV we always see the same things, but on YouTube, Spotify, TikTok, we have a range of diversity. … We can get all this and see that there is diversity, society far beyond just what we live.
It's difficult to wrap your head around this, but it's true, there are more sources on YouTube and other media, possibly more variety of people to agree with. But interestingly the loss of credibility and journalism is ok with this source. There are some social media based journalists that do a good job, but almost three times as much online that spread misinformation.