• Pacattack57@lemmy.world
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    13 hours ago

    You know your local news network has a TikTok right? There’s nothing wrong with news from social media. The problem is that media is unregulated and people are allowed to lie and pass off that information factual.

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      13 hours ago

      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