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rubbersole

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5. The clickbait/eyeballs profit driven business model...

Reply to sop (Reply #3)

Fri Apr 4, 2025, 07:27 AM

Apr 4

..dominating "news" delivery is probably going to continue to deteriorate as AI and audience algorithms are disregarding truth in search of sheer numbers to draw advertisers.
Civics isn't taught in secondary schools anymore. Public education/truth has never been under attack like it is now. Maybe the crashing markets/societal norms we're living in have a silver lining. Billionaires are being exposed as the bad guys causing all this...not the lettuce pickers that we've been taught to blame.

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