Comments on: Attack on Israel: Musk’s X slammed as ‘platform for hatred’ https://techcentral.co.za/attack-on-israel-x-platform-for-hatred/233149/ Technology News Leader In South Africa Thu, 12 Oct 2023 04:52:32 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.3.2 By: Will H https://techcentral.co.za/attack-on-israel-x-platform-for-hatred/233149/#comment-166059 Thu, 12 Oct 2023 04:52:32 +0000 https://techcentral.co.za/?p=233149#comment-166059 If you want curated news with an obvious bias, watch CNN. If you want curated news with an obviously different bias, watch Al Jazeera. If you want the raw data dump, truths and untruths, go to Twitter or Facebook. I’d far rather have all of the above than just one of the “curated” platforms telling me their “truth”. I can also see why vested interests would not.

Social media is also a great place to watch celebrities, government officials, and “truth tellers” from all sides make a fool of themselves trying to sell a particular narrative only to be rebuffed in real time (community notes is great). Just assume that everything is an exaggeration of a truth or a complete falsehood, wait for the most popular truths to percolate, then decide for yourself. Don’t be in a rush to reach a conclusion. And if you don’t see different opinions in your news feed you are probably being fed only one side of the story.

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