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Remember when the Intenet made you optimistic? That's why I think these posts gut me so much. Because it doesn't do that anymore.
Anyway off to continue doom scrolling.
"The internet will bring us all together! It will democratize truth and information!" Was the manta of the 2000s.
20 years later and the exact opposite happened.
to be fair i would say that the internet largely has made information significantly more democratic & accessible. truth, not so much...
although i definitely do count the fact that you need to know how to spot & deal with misinformation and especially disinformation and differentiate it from valid information in order to safely use the internet, as a very big accessibility problem currently. Most people aren't growing up learning that on their own, and it's certainly not well taught.