Images Don’t Always Tell the Story: How Social Media Dumbs Down Critical Thought

[Wake Up World]: Some years ago, the alternative news media began to be hijacked, and mixed in with political ardency from one side or another. The resulting misinformation belittled alternative news, just as it was starting to gain legitimacy alongside the mainstream.

This was years after Facebook for instance removed the option which allowed you to either scroll through most recent posts, or most popular. The result was that not only were alternative news sources mitigated and articles relegated, but your feed was then and has now been infiltrated by corporations with snazzy pictures and videos, posing as contemporaries, spouting the benefits of some snake oil idea or product.

This has led to more of what social media giants had said they were trying to eliminate. Of course, your whole network is an echo chamber – but more importantly, it has become an echo chamber of utter bullshit stories -in pictures. The pictures include some conspiracy theory speculation and literally dumb down the collective discussion to the point people have to ask really, really stupid questions so as to clear the scene before even investigating it...<<<Read The Full Article Here>>>...