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Warning: Everything on Social Media Is Probably Fake; I have found that thanks to the technical advances in media manipulation, nothing is credible anymore
American Thinker ^ | 05/07/2024 | Alicia Colon

Posted on 05/07/2024 8:34:20 AM PDT by SeekAndFind

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To: SeekAndFind
Next they'll be telling us a nice guy like this...



... could brutally kill his ex-wife and her companion.



21 posted on 05/07/2024 9:04:31 AM PDT by Bratch
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

>> ...Think he had “Tic” or “Tick” in his handle. Gotta be careful with him.

I know that guy! Thing is, he’s so unreliable that he’s reliably unreliable, and therefore truthy as an inverse-truth barometer.


22 posted on 05/07/2024 9:06:51 AM PDT by Nervous Tick ("First the Saturday people, then the Sunday people...": ISLAM is the problem!)
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To: SeekAndFind

Wow, I had not heard of those schemes. How can they manipulate the stock price that much? Are all of them issued in HK?


23 posted on 05/07/2024 9:07:56 AM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom (“When exposing a crime is treated like a crime, you are being ruled by criminals” – Edward Snowden)
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To: SeekAndFind

especially beware of ‘medical videos’ on the net- as most are absolute rubbish with false information at best, deadly info at worst- use actual verified medical sites with clinical trials to back up info and to verify any claims in videos on social media

most ‘doctors’ on social media are hucksters with naturalist backgrounds that tout herbs and vitamins, and minerals etc as having powers that they simply do not have- claiming to cure everything from indigestion to pancreatic cancer- and usually, the real quacks will have their own “Propriety formulas” touted as ‘much better’ than standard vitamins and herbs-

Learn to spot the red flags of hucksters- ie ‘propriety blend’ ‘the medical community doesn’t want you to know this secret’ ‘has completely cured (insert uncurable disease here) when other medications have failed” etc lots of red flags by these hucksters-


24 posted on 05/07/2024 9:16:05 AM PDT by Bob434
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Mass brainwashing. Instagram, Tik Tok, Facebook, Google, CNN, MSNBC, NPR, YouTube, etc etc etc.

Everything not in agreement with the narrative will be tossed down the memory hole.


25 posted on 05/07/2024 9:27:22 AM PDT by Deo volente ("When we see the image of a baby in the womb, we glimpse the majesty of God's creation." Pres. Trump)
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From the article title: I have found that thanks to the technical advances in media manipulation, nothing is credible anymore.

Anymore? It was never credible. Now it's just more obvious.

26 posted on 05/07/2024 9:38:12 AM PDT by T.B. Yoits
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To: SeekAndFind

Truer words were never spoken (or written). I joined Fakebook only for access to a group that is relative to one of my hobbies. Virtually everything not related to those groups is 100% fake. Zillions of posts about ancient civilizations and UFO’s, complete with fake AI images, constant product advertisements, sales pitches on how to cure diabetes by taking two tablespoons of..., and on and on. BTW, did you know Metformin has been recalled? Me neither. So many medical misinformation posts, yet if one tried to post a known fact about the clot shots it would be deleted in a heartbeat.

I hope to be able to glean the information I need from my hobby groups and GTH off of Fakebook ASAP. What a vast wasteland.


27 posted on 05/07/2024 9:39:16 AM PDT by Auntie Dem (Hey! Hey! Ho! Ho! Terrorist lovers gotta go!)
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To: Nervous Tick

They can’t put anything on the internet that isn’t true. I am a French model.


28 posted on 05/07/2024 9:57:44 AM PDT by pas
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>> I am a French model.

Of course you are!

Citroen is a French model.


29 posted on 05/07/2024 10:10:12 AM PDT by Nervous Tick ("First the Saturday people, then the Sunday people...": ISLAM is the problem!)
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To: SeekAndFind

Even before there was an internet, the primary deception of the newspapers was the pretense they knew what was going on.


30 posted on 05/07/2024 10:17:36 AM PDT by Salman (It's not a slippery slope if it was part of the program all along. )
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To: SeekAndFind

Thanks captain obvious....I didn’t know that, not even a clue.


31 posted on 05/07/2024 10:36:35 AM PDT by BigFreakinToad (Remember the Biden Kitchen Fire of 2004)
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To: SeekAndFind

Already figured that out. Thanks. Lies, lies and more lies.


32 posted on 05/07/2024 10:41:19 AM PDT by MeneMeneTekelUpharsin (Freedom is the freedom to discipline yourself so others don't have to do it for you.)
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To: SeekAndFind

There are some very good comments at the link.


33 posted on 05/07/2024 11:27:28 AM PDT by metmom (He who testifies to these things says, “Surely I am coming soon.” Amen. Come, Lord Jesus…)
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To: z3n

It was heavenly when google search was a deep research tool and you could control the search words and what you could dig up if persistent.


34 posted on 05/07/2024 12:49:35 PM PDT by ansel12 ((NATO warrior under Reagan, and RA under Nixon, bemoaning the pro-Russians from Vietnam to Ukraine.))
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To: SeekAndFind

Things are very different. I was on the net from the beginning.

There are few real searches. the search algorithm are no where near as precise.

There doesn’t seem to be any more Soundex. The spelling checkers do not seem to be nearly as intutive as previous.

The spell checker and grammar checkers seem to be less functional

perhaps I am imagining?


35 posted on 05/07/2024 12:54:42 PM PDT by Chickensoup
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“If you are on a social network like Facebook, Instagram or TikTok ....”

Well, there’s a big part of your problem right there.


36 posted on 05/07/2024 6:06:13 PM PDT by SharpRightTurn (“Giving money & power to government is like giving whiskey & car keys to teenage boys” P.J. O’Rourke)
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