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by wallflower
2896 days ago
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I fear we are all one misstep away from going viral for all the wrong reasons. In a world where people die taking ill-advised selfies and YouTube is glutted with pranking videos that all try to one up each other, it seems that exposure and attention is the new currency. The problem is that they can use and discard you if you are doing something that fits their narrative for attention. And then you have online mobs. With wildfire falsehoods. For example, people were killed in India because of false rumors spread on WhatsApp: https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2018/07/02/asia/india-lynching-whats... |
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