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Much has been said about the generational shift happening around attitudes to Palestine - a recent poll suggested a majority of Britain’s young people did not believe Israel should exist and According to a recent YouGov survey, a mere 16 per cent of the British public expressed solidarity with Israel.
https://yougov.co.uk/topics/politics/survey-results/daily/2024/04/08/badb6/1
a majority of young people in America sympathised more with Palestinians than they did with Israelis, with 34 percent saying that Hamas’s reasons for fighting Israel were valid.
It’s about time the mainstream media caught up, or else they risk losing their remaining credibility to the TikTok brigade. Because that is where they get their main news from these days...and they don't think they are being played they actually think everything they see is actually news
ICYMI
Carefully crafted social media posts and other online propaganda are fighting to make people around the world take sides
https://counter.social/@ecksmc/112351612681379638
I'm not saying everything they see on social media is fake, misinformation, disinformation I'm saying maybe if people understand where and how that stuff gets prepared, and ultimately tested, before being pushed out, they might not fall for it and just might think twice before taking a side
@LnzyHou ikr when I started to use the internet we had a mentality of "if its on the internet its 100% questionable if not false/fake" 😆 and has ultimately remained my mentality
These days its > believe everything and question little < as long as I'm in with the biggest crowd my posts will reach more when using certain hashtags > people just jump on any bandwagon that's passing with no regard of what's actually happening
The overall solution is way above my pay grade.
My only recourse was to deactivate from every SM platform that proliferated lies, rage, falsehoods, attacks, racism, fascism etc.
If I hadn’t found CoSo, I would be gone entirely.
I’m baffled ANYONE continues to support these sites.
But, but, but my friends
But, but, but my job
But, but, but my news sources
But, but, but my addiction to chaos
Wake up folks!
@LnzyHou one thing is to stop being so rapped up in things we know little to nothing about and start educating ourselves more and reading things that will take us outside our comfort zone and accept what we knew was wrong
People need to learn that just because a platform, media outlets, is right/left leaning it doesn't mean everything on the platform, media outlets, is false/wrong, or misinformation, while understanding it just might well be < open mind and never full commit 😉 research also
Much to my horror, my son sometimes watches Fox. He maintains it’s important to understand their “thinking” so you can beat them at their own game.
This is the same guy who read the Bible cover to cover like a novel. It took him two years.
When a Christian cherry-picks a verse, he asks key questions about the entire story. Of course, they NEVER know the context.
He’s now reading the Quran like a novel.
I learn so much from this kid.
@LnzyHou i applaud your son for doing they things - not sure about beat at own game though
I watch, read, a lot of stuff from people, outlets, I don't agree with, I totally get where your son is coming from, to understand we have to consume others points and views - it really is what true democracy is about reaching a middle ground after all - its not just for mocking purposes
I also read the Bible so I could challenge a "priest" at a residential School - I got banned from the chapel lol
@ecksmc
My son lives in red territory. He has to encounter the bullshit at work. Waits until it gets too deep and confronts.
He is a moderate Dem & repeatedly tells me my progressive beliefs are polarizing. Of course he’s “right” (and correct).
But left I stay.