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And that would have been bad enough before Oracle started running the show. With Larry Ellison (a.k.a. Satan wearing a poorly tailored human meat-suit) deciding what people should be reading, it’s downright terminally moronic.
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Submitted 3 weeks ago by Pro@programming.dev to technology@lemmy.world
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xxce2AAb@feddit.dk 3 weeks ago
cupcakezealot@piefed.blahaj.zone 3 weeks ago
explains why american politics is so dumb
majster@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
And that is the reason behind previous bans and current forced sale to US oligarchs.
DeathByBigSad@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
My parents gets news from Wechat
So much “Taiwan Taiwan Taiwan”, “Democrats Ruin NYC” “ILLEGAL IMMIGRANT living in FREE HOTEL” 🤦♂️
Like calm down lmao, we aren’t even in China anymore, what’s the obsession with “reunification”, and like hate for dems is so weird, since their main opponent literally wants to kick us out.
Jhex@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
getting dumber by the minute
JackbyDev@programming.dev 3 weeks ago
When I used Reddit I got news from there. If news sites weren’t so fucking atrocious to use i might browse them directly. Plus, it’s not like legitimate news isn’t shared on social media. AP is generally considered pretty unbiased and reliable and they have a TikTok account.
timbuck2themoon@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
I find a bigger issue for me is the lack of RSS. I refuse to subscribe to some dumb social media service simply to get links to your stories.
RSS being cut out means so many are forced to use some other bullshit just to get some semblance of a feed and that includes a whole bunch of other shit and not just what you want.
Dyskolos@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
RSS will sadly die out. Like all excellent stuff from before the enshittification-of-everything like IRC or good old web 1.0 which just had information and not 25 fat-ass JavaScript frameworks and libraries and 582 trackers and more cookies than one could chew…
But news via tiktok is the (current…) Epitome of stupidness of the already stupid stupidness of news via yet another framework per se.
I miss RSS.
shalafi@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
apnews.com is the only news site I visit outside of what lemmy links for me. Know what’s weird? There is SO much on there that could be linked here, but people post the same story 40 times.
The UN walkout? Beat to death, but I hadn’t seen a solid video until I went to AP. I was thinking it wasn’t such a big deal as the headlines, videos and comments made out. FFS, the best video is right there!
boonhet@sopuli.xyz 3 weeks ago
Please… order in the hall
sleen@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
Don’t blame them, when the average interaction on news sites is completely unwelcoming.
JackbyDev@programming.dev 3 weeks ago
My thoughts entirely. One of my favorite ironies is The Washington Post saying “Democracy Dies in Darkness” as they prevent you from reading their news article without having a subscription.
Tetragrade@leminal.space 3 weeks ago
NO, YOU ARE WRONG!
billwashere@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
1 in 5 Americans are idiots. It’s likely much higher than that.
pineapplelover@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
This is why I get my news only from Lemmy 😁
roofuskit@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
The new fascist propaganda machine. Algorithm controlled by the GOP and Trump cronies.
FistingEnthusiast@lemmynsfw.com 3 weeks ago
People are choosing stupidity
Is it because it’s easier than getting proper news from reputable sources or something?
jubilationtcornpone@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
Getting news from reputable sources generally involves reading and ~25% of American adults are functionally illiterate.
Probably not the main cause of people turning to TikTok for news but if you drew a ven diagram of the two groups, I wouldn’t be shocked if there was an awful lot of overlap.
RoidingOldMan@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
His tweets have a 5th grade reading level, there’s a connection for sure. Even Facebook and Twitter and other social media requires some level of reading.
ZiemekZ@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
That ~25% of American adults is too dumb to deserve to vote. You should be able to show some kind of basic intelligence and common sense in order to have a say in how a country should be run – it should be based on merit. I even have a name for that: meritocracy!
captainlezbian@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I think it’s just that a content creator, especially one with the ability to come off authentically, comes off as more trustworthy than a media corporation, even one well known for its trustworthiness.
Part of me misses my childhood local paper. Especially the game we played in middle school of finding the spelling and grammar errors. Honestly though I do think we need to have a revival of subscribing to local newspapers
14th_cylon@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
the headline sounds fucking scary, but i wonder what the reality really is. i am in my fourties, i remember paper news, and i understand the media world and what the difference is between trustworthy media and tabloid.
still, lemmy is often times the first place where i see specific news, esp. regarding us politics (i am from eu) - but i choose links to reputable sources (which is not that hard, because lot of times the same info is linked 5 times from the different sources) and verify if needed.
so “gets news from social networks” would sound more scary that i think my reality is. i don’t have tiktok, so i have no idea what the reality is there.
KoboldCoterie@pawb.social 3 weeks ago
My middle school social studies teacher used to give extra credit on things if we brought in a newspaper clipping with a spelling error circled. I didn’t understand until years later that getting us to read the paper was the goal, but it sure worked on me.
reddig33@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
People aren’t being taught to use critical thinking skills anymore.
shalafi@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Texas GOP official platform had called for an end to critical thinking education. Looks like they took such a beating over that stance as to flip a 180.
Doubt that translates into real-world policies.
roofuskit@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
When they are, US Nazis puts a stop to it.
Meron35@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Not to defend the stupidity that does exist on Tiktok, but reputable sources often post their news and extra content on Tiktok, and Tiktok often the only way to access it. “Proper news” in the form of articles tends to be more jargony and needs to confirm to a professional tone. Not to mention, they simply take more time to produce.
Examples of extra content include fact checks, debunking right wing conspiracy theories, longer versions of interviews that didn’t make the final cut, or simple clarifications in the form of Q and As.
E.g. see the Tiktok accounts for the BBC, The Guardian, the Financial Times, etc