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This sounds like a call to be willfully ignorant of the serious political shit going down around them. That's how you get the average idiot who doesn't understand why voting for a guy like Trump is a bad idea.
You should be fucking angry and have more animosity towards other political groups, or you aren't paying attention. Nazis should be called out.
No, not in context. They are talking about disimformation like, "using YOUR tax dollars, funded bioweapon research, including Covid-19" from Musk. They say:
So if you cut out the the most divisive political accounts, you will not miss ANY actual news, but are likely to miss a huge pile of disinformation.
No, you just cut out the misinformation. If they are spreading vaccine misinformation on Facebook, fuck them. Cut them out. Never read a thing they put out again.
It's not about divisiveness. It's about critical thinking skills.
I am not confident I or most other Americans can always tell what is misinformation. A recent bout of AI generated 'Am I the A-hole?' post on reddit recently got a bunch of people angry (Meta would say, 'highly engaged') because enough of them though the stories might be true.
When the Fukishima power plant got hit by a tidal wave, I foolishly believed an 'expert' on TV that day who said the plant was designed so that lead shielding hoods would automatically cover the rods in the event of power loss. Well THAT didn't happen. I no longer remember who the 'expert' was, so he could fool me again. Maybe he has.
That's always been the case. Grifters grift, and they have been grifting for thousands of years.
You're never going to find it 100%, but you can at least go back and blacklist who you have seen to be lying. Reputation is more important than ever. Far too many random strangers have been believing every word from other random strangers. This is why I don't understand TikTok or other short-form video formats. Why would you take advice from some creator you've only seen once?