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    Fast 40 % der Amerikaner unter 30 erhalten Nachrichten von Social-Media-Influencern | Die beliebtesten Influencer sind Männer, die sich im Zeitalter von Trump zunehmend radikalisieren.


    Fast 40 % der Amerikaner unter 30 erhalten Nachrichten von Social-Media-Influencern | Die beliebtesten Influencer sind Männer, die sich im Zeitalter von Trump zunehmend radikalisieren.

    https://gizmodo.com/almost-40-of-americans-under-30-get-news-from-social-media-influencers-2000525911

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    1. Sejare1 on

      All of us are being manipulated in one way or another in real time through social media and the internet, the implications of this are… frightening. 

    4. TinyTC1992 on

      For me I’ve always been a sceptic so if I receive a piece of news, I’ll go and actively try and disprove it, if multiple reputable news sources are running that story you can come to a conclusion about its origin and truthfulness. The issue is not where the individual gets the news from, for me it’s that person’s ability just to take it on face value and even in the case of the US election they’d happily vote for the thing they believe. Critical thinking and source checking has gone down the toilet in the last 20 years with the advent of the Internet.

    5. Stilgar314 on

      It’s terrible to see kids today believing whatever TikTok throws at them like tenets of faith. This will only go worse.

    8. EndItAllSoonish on

      It’s frustrates me, I’m not radicalised because I don’t like the current state of politics.

    9. OrdoMalaise on

      It’s depressing how many people in my life seem to watch nothing now except online conspiracy brain-rot. I have so many conversations that go along the lines of:

      “Did no you see Alien Romulus?”

      “No. But are you worried about the immigrant crime wave that’s sweeping our city? I’ve been stocking up on toilet paper and buying gold.”

      “There is no immigrant crime wave.”

      “No there is. The news won’t tell you the truth, but I can send you some videos that explain it all….”

      It’s getting to the point where I dread talking with people who used to be friends.

    10. IsThereAnythingLeft- on

      People getting any information from social media and who don’t check it somewhere else are fools, but sadly that is most people, especially in America

    11. nailbunny2000 on

      Every < 30 guy in our office said Trump was definitely going to win, everyone else thought they were smoking crack.

      Take that as you will.

    12. BrewKazma on

      This is why republicans want control of education so bad. It’s much easier to get people to believe your bullshit when you aren’t teaching them media literacy and how to source claims.

    13. No-Presence-7334 on

      I mean, technically, so do I? The majority report is a podcast. They are not journalists.
      The problem is they are getting news from people who are lying and manipulating them. Not that they are listening to podcasts

    14. EntranceSad5571 on

      Glad I just missed the trend, I am 35 and love the PBS news hour

    15. trancepx on

      Oh dang says corp media companies as it’s spirals into irrelevance, almost as if all the constant lying and gaslighting has people tuning out, wild.

    16. Scared_of_zombies on

      Imagine being a journalism organization that’s SO BAD at their jobs that an entire generation stops listening to you and starts listening to literal lay people.

    17. Wrong-Cat-4294 on

      The new channels and newspapers have been lying to us for decades that’s why people have turned away,maybe the new media is lying also and that just means that eventually people will turn from them too and hopefully it won’t take decades to happen.Most people don’t believe msm anymore and with good reason.

    18. LocksmithNegative941 on

      This is scary af! YouTube needs to be regulated! All this Parents that get misinformation from influencers have
      Children who get their misinformation!
      Please inform your children.
      See you all at the peaceful exchange into fascism
      I can’t believe I get to see America die, Or at least see the dream become a nightmare

    19. Psychedelic_Yogurt on

      Last July my uncles (in their 60’s) unironically admitted they started using tik Tok to get the “real” news. I get most of my news from cspan. It’s boring AF but the tradeoff is I can form my own conclusions before anyone can sway me one way or another.

    20. Extreme-General1323 on

      Van Jones of MSNBC said it best – The left has been demonizing men for many years – so why would they stay in a political party that actively hates them? The mass exodus will continue as well since the “toxic masculinity” and “burn down the patriarchy” folks are running the Democratic Party now.

    21. sniffstink1 on

      The country is doomed. Imagine listening to any random moron on the internet and being convinced it’s fact. I’m a random moron too and I spew nonsense opinions – it terrifies me to think young people lap that shit up.

    22. Patara on

      The US apparently didnt need to actually educate people on the actual response (UN) after WW2 to prevent the rise of misinformation. 

      Right wingers are entirely emotionally motivated by rage, dislike & an incessant need to self-victimize themselves into a position where they’re always retaliating against something.

      They’re extremely easy to mold with misinformation which is why overconfident grifters that tell these people what they want to hear are thriving right now ——>>> This is how we get fascism.

      Free speech whatever whatever its a question of actually maintaining objective truth & not allowing people to lie, false advertise & instigate hate for profit & influence. 

    24. thatwasntonce on

      I remember being young on YouTube and really enjoying Phillip DeFranco, he was a guy who would present daily news with a sense of comedy. I really enjoyed how neutral and supportive of open discussion he was. Today’s influences are people peddling agendas whether it’s political or just for personal gain.

    25. CleanlyManager on

      I’m pretty firmly a center left liberal if you are on my side of the spectrum or left of that, go onto something like youtube or tiktok with a fresh account, it will blow your mind. It will be nonstop recommendations of extremist content on both sides, snip bits from debates and interviews that are edited in a way that makes “your side” look like they “won” (this was very common after the Trump Harris debate to a point where if you only got your news from social media I wouldn’t be surprised if you thought Trump had an amazing performance that debate.), compilations of the other side doing something weird or outrageous out of context, etc. The worst part is these guys on social media platforms will scream to high heaven about how you should trust them more than the mainstream when they lie twice as much, and have zero accountability. The worst part is, about half of you guys reading this right now are saying “yeah that’s true for everyone except me.”

    27. Westlakesam on

      Not just radicalized. Male influencers are being payed by Trump and other sources to push their agendas.

    28. HurlinVermin on

      I notice a lot of people referencing this Youtuber or that X-user or this TikToker when discussing social issues these days, as if these influencers have any kind of special insight.

      For the vast majority, they don’t. They just learned how to leverage a platform in order to push their biases.

    29. Thin-Clouds on

      At 38, I have remained old school. No social media except Reddit. A cup of joe, and local news and I’m all caught up.

    30. obaterista93 on

      As a roughly 30 year old white guy, it has been an ongoing and relentless process to stop my feed from becoming alt-right garbage.

    31. unidentifiedpenis on

      lowtax was right when he said “the internet makes you stupid”.

    32. SubieB503 on

      Two guys at work 24 and 22 watch YouTube guys for the their news and political views.

    33. GateLongjumping6836 on

      What a ridiculous place to get news especially since Putin was paying right wing pundits on YouTube.

    34. RaisinsAndPersons on

      The influence of Benny Johnson is what depresses me the most. He’s a hack and a fraud who shouldn’t have any professional position in media after all the times he plagiarized, but in the right wing media ecosystem, hacks and frauds fail upwards and liars prosper.

    36. Mutex70 on

      TIL that Almost 40% of Americans Under 30 have no critical thinking skills.

    37. whoopysnorp on

      I used to think that people under 30 who grew up in the digital era would be smart enough to figure out what is bs and what is not simply because of the exposure they get to it. But after the election I realized the opposite is true because the only frame of reference they have is the online world where truth is fluid at best. Kids don’t read and seem to want and have made a clean break with the continuity of history. They only trust what is fed to them through their phone. That source of truth is ever changing and controlled by people who seek to manipulate

    39. sionnach_fi on

      Benny Johnson, in the thumbnail, is one of the right wing influencers being paid through Tenet Media by the Kremlin.

      I feel like that story has gone away a little too soon! Good to bring it back up.

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