A PR Hoax Created the Year’s Hottest Rock Band. Imagine What It Can Do in Politics
Maybe the best advice is at the end of the article – assume you are being manipulated.
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Blogs are Back
If you aren’t yet that dedicated to RSS feeds, this may be a super-easy way to get started. It’s free, you don’t even need an account, the data is stored in your browser, or you can create a free account and sync the data across your devices.
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Worth Reading – To Change Your Life, Start With Your Algorithm
My advice to you is to find the content that gives you hope, even if it’s just content that makes you laugh. We need more of that and a lot less outrage.
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Linked – How I Learned to Love Newsletters
As the author says, algorithms aren’t working to keep us well informed. RSS can work, but it takes some effort on our part and the availability of an RSS feed from the site we want to follow. An email newsletter shows up.
I might not love email, but I can’t argue with that.
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Easy Prediction – AI Will Eat Most of the Ways We Get Our News
This should not surprise anyone. The ability of anyone to create an avalanche of content capable of overwhelming any algorithmic curation is here. It exists, and it is happening. It’s only going to get worse. Fake profiles sharing fake stories from AI-written content farms will eventually overwhelm the number of people online and make every network worthless. If you think there aren’t already thousands and thousands of these, you haven’t been paying attention. ChatGPT just made it easier to do.
The only thing we’ll be able to fall back on is trusting the people we know personally. Assuming we can tell the difference.
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With Social Media Companies Distancing Themselves from News, It’s Time For You to Learn About RSS
In the interest of helping.
Check out this post with a tutorial on using Feedly. Or some of these other posts about RSS Readers.
Check out a newsletter service like Substack. – here’s my newsletter as an example.
Check out a Fediverse-based social network like Mastodon. No big companies, no data tracking for ad tech, just people and a small, but growing, number of journalists, sharing stuff. (Here’s my Mastodon profile, feel free to create an account and follow me.)
