Teaching Smallsteps to consume social media content (when she does start to use them) with discernment is a good thing in a world riddled with lies. In a world where, like you said, truth and fallacies are dictated by those in power. One has to be able to filter out the BS. We do certainly need help.

# Outstanding effort 🥇

I think there is a point where it becomes impossible to determine what is fact and what is fiction. I mean back in the day it was pretty clear because the ludicrous stuff was obvious. These days, nothing shocks me anymore so who knows! Plus even if someone clearly says something like "we are going to change the name of the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America". People will excuse, reason, or explain it away anyhow.

They did not sell the networks only as a means of communication but the great truth is that they manipulate us and use us at will the other day talking to my friend about a lipstick that I bought and all day advertising that brand I do not know how they do it but it gave me some fear.

old platforms really are quite bad. Recently I wanted to edit my post on twitter and found out that to do that I have to pay money? What?? also I saw on youtube a let's play video where creator in the title said that she is a trans girl. I don't understand this need to tell who you are. I don't go around announcing that I am: white, male, not very wealthy , atheist... my favorite colors are blue, green and white. No one asked that and no one cares...

I really hope that the young of this generation who grow up on social media and internet, can learn to differentiate between facts and lies. Otherwise we are doomed and need to shut down Wikipedia 😅

Did You see Zuckerdouche announced the ***FactWreckers*** exiting on the 4 year anniversary of removing the POTUS from the ***FecesCrook*** platform. Planned hypocrisy/irony? You gotta wonder how many million dollar bribe donations and how far these big tech **SNAKES** will slither up Trumps ass for their get out of jail free ***(Please don't break up my Monopoly)*** cards. Gates,***(Microsloth Windospybloatware)*** ~~Bezos~~ Bozos ***(Amazon)*** Musk ***(H1-B abuser and GFY face proclamationist)*** the list of ***Never Trumpers*** who are suddenly ***Forever Trumper Donors*** goes on and on...
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Complex topic- removing fact checkers is actually akin to freedom of speech that we promote on Hive. The main difference being the community  here is relative small but mature enough to identify propaganda and fake news and nuke if necessary. Whereas  web2.0 community is not possible.

On the other hand, fact checkers for Chinese content on FB are from China, there's  no surprise what content gets censored. With my previous homes being in Taiwan and Hong Kong that was even more apparent

Our mind discerns patterns. When it has words to describe a pattern, we call that logic. When it lacks the words to describe a pattern it's observed, we call that a 'gut feeling'. 

Dang man! Excellent parenting! I love how you take the time to actually explain. She made a great choice with the dishes as a result. 

>And, we have seen how many times that in hindsight, the social platforms got it very wrong, because "fact" was whatever the government decided was fact, and fallacy was anything the government disagreed with.

Why does this not freak the f**k out of everyone?! It does me. 

>expects that their personal viewpoint on every topic, is respected 

if not downright written into law.

>No centralised information can be trusted, because there is just too much incentive to skew the message, especially when the algorithms doing the checks and distributing those messages, are designed to maximise profit.


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Well a big chunk of the reason I jumped on here was precisely because there was supposed to be no censorship.

Ahh I remember when my kids were that helpful XD

<sub>then I got a lot of help from my well meaning outlaws whom I asked to come and babysit/spend some time with the kids while I was working from home when they were younger but for whatever reason they decided they were going to come over and clean instead and kept sitting the kids down in front of the tv instead of letting them help because "we just want to get it done" and don't get me wrong I'm grateful for the cleaning help as I always struggle with that but the kids going through a period of being resentful and angry about the fact they have to clean/do chores was a hard one to fix</sub>

They are actually helpful.

<sub>they grew up and will at least do their chores and stuff but I still have to mental load for everyone which irks me no end because I'm not really any better at keeping on top of anything</sub>

I've had many similar conversations with middle child especially as she's the one on social media the most.  It got to a point where "messing up the algorithms" is a joke ("bro watching this video really messed up my recommendations" or in my case "Spotify didn't have a clue before and has even less of a clue now") and she readily admits to being super easily influenced "I saw this ad for doughnuts and NOW I REALLY WANT DOUGHNUTS" "damn you're easily manipulated" "I KNOW" (not quite how the conversation went but that was the gist of it, and she made doughnuts in the air fryer).  

> there is far too much we don't know, to be too confident in what we think we do know.

My kids and their friends are all at the age where this is a problem, perhaps on a different tangent to what you were writing about.  They know a hell of a lot about marketing and other manipulative tactics, but may think that they know so much more about it than they actually do and thus may not realise when they are falling for something that they've missed because they think they know everything there is to know about it.

Hell we're probably at that age where this is a problem but hopefully we at least recognise it x_x

What's more is that recently Meta has announced that they will include AI accounts on facebook and instagram and intermingle them with humans that they can use to manipulate information. Then the humans that can determine AI accounts from real people can easily fall for misinformation.