re: #154 Belafon
I think too few people take this into account. All facebook and twitter did was shrink the space between people. Most people don’t pay that much attenion to the news. And what they hear from other people probably registers as important because why would someone else bring it up.
I just recall seeing some post on an ex-GF’s feed “Scientists Declare Great Barrier Reef Dead”…and even a cursory reading of the article indicated that was not the case, but that is how these things spread.
People quickly learned how to weaponize that potential.