“We are all in the same boat now”
It’s crazy no one has mentioned Rupert Murdoch in relation to this. He owns 21st century fox in USA, New Corporation in Australia and News International in the UK. All Major publishing houses that own hundreds of papers and TV channels.
He is a evil man who uses his staggering media empire to control the opinions billions of people and has directly influenced many elections by pushing certain narratives.
As an Australian he is our greatest shame.
You just watched that new fern video too huh
No i don’t know who fern is. I’m from Australia, we’ve known about old right wing Rupert for a long time.
I just saw a comment on here about how the UK doesn’t have Fox News and thought perhaps they don’t realise that it’s the same guy the whole way down
I, too, don’t know that fern video or what fern is. That said, yeah, I think anyone informed at all realize Murdoch is in the pantheon of comically evil real people who have lived. For those that don’t know, now you know.
That’s what happens when Big Tech traps people in information silos and the media manufactures different fake realities depending on the bias of the particular billionaires who happens to own the outlets: people don’t share a common experience anymore and don’t have common facts to agree on.
As a result, everybody has their own truths from their own information bubbles and nobody know the actual facts anymore.
This is from 2013. This has nothing to do with big tech, people are just stupid.
Eh, the rhetoric was still being pushed just in different ways.
I think blaming billionaires for this is incorrect. Look at Lemmy: this place is very much a silo. I’ve been actively participating here for over two years and in that time I have encountered one or two people who supported Trump (the ones posting in /conservative/ before it apparently got taken over). I routinely get called a fascist for being a mainstream Democrat. I’m not complaining (after all, I choose to be here rather than in a more comfortable silo) but clearly being a federated open-source non-profit isn’t solving the problem.
Some billionaires got rich by enabling people to join online silos, but those billionaires were doing what the people wanted already.
Idk, people here are definitely on average more sane than on mainstream platforms. This also isn’t to do with big tech or billionaires, it’s the fact that even knowing of Lemmy has a certain intellectual barrier that filters out the non-thinking masses.
There’s a filter but I’d say it’s a “dedication” filter rather than a “sanity” filter. People on here generally seem to put more effort into understanding the causes that they support than the average person on Facebook does, so they avoid making the most basic mistakes. However, their causes are still often far out of the mainstream (“crazy” in a colloquial sense) and their understanding of why someone might disagree with them in good faith is often rather poor.
Having interacted with the British public on a regular basis, I can confirm: they don’t know owt!
Social Media was a mistake.
This story is from 2013 https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/british-public-wrong-about-nearly-everything-survey-shows-8697821.html
I can only assume in the intervening 13ish years, that the public are now wrong about everything.
Well they know about something that is 100% true: lizzy’s dead.
I fear what the results form a survey in the US would find…
US public wrong about nearly everything and proud of it?
Are we living in a land where sex and horror are the new gods?
Wow, if only there was an organization whose purpose was to inform the public about the current state of the world, maybe they could do something about it
The BBC is a propaganda outlet meant to keep British society in line and and in check so the aristocracy can maintain their power.
LOL
If people would actually READ articles instead of just looking at the headline and pictures.
And if people would believe articles that do not reflect their view, then and only then, they could do that job
Corporate media, including “left leaning” and “progressive” outlets, routinely misleads people, especially around the listed issues of crime, public benefits, and immigration. Check out https://fair.org/ for tons of examples.
See they don’t have Fox News and same problems as the U.S.
Oh but they do
I wonder why
