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How Americans responded in 1955 when the invention of the polio vaccine was announced (feddit.org)
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[–] DarkThoughts@fedia.io 4 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

You know your local news network has a TikTok right?

That's not what people watch though. People get their news from "influencers", often time those with far right alignments, or straight from fascist parties who are the ones with the most reach on TicTok.

The problem is that media is unregulated and people are allowed to lie and pass off that information factual.

That's literally what the free press is, and a fundamental pillar of a free and democratic society. Regulated media is censored media, and exactly what fascists want. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_of_the_press

[–] Pacattack57@lemmy.world 2 points 4 hours ago

Being “press” does not give you blanket protection from lies. Alex Jones just lost his company because he lied about Sandy Hook victims.