Headnote: The nation of Finland seems willing to say that social media can be fake news (link) On one of my favourite blogs the host abandoned twitter about the time that platform began having blue checkmarks for special commenters. Someone who was obviously not part of his ongoing blog community, and didn’t know that history, […]
Social Media Kills
seanessay.com Social Media Kills. I’d like this slogan on a sweat shirt, especially after that school teacher was beheaded in France. It turns out this week that one of his students, who wasn’t even in class that day of his alleged offence, lied to her father, who then, I suspect, lied on social media—It’s a […]
Good Media Ain’t Social Media
seanessay.com This week thugs stormed into the US capital building—because of what they believed. If they believed fake news, then was this news from normal, traditional media? No, it was from social media, beginning with tweets from their government’s Chief Executive Officer. As I see it, Social Media Kills. Today, curating what others have said, […]