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by gabbygab 2650 days ago
The WSJ is owned by one of the wealthiest men in the world. Why are you begging people here to buy a subscription? If you can't make ends meeet, why not ask one of the riches men in the world to invest more in his company?

And for every journalist who died, millions of innocent people died from wars from lies pushed by these journalists. How much blood of the innocent are on the hands of the WSJ, NYT and Wapo just in the past 18 years?

If "Social Media" has been a gift to dictators, what do you think newspapers are? And what message are these journalists reporting? The message of the wealthy?

There is no denying that social media can be toxic and bad for society. But that goes for the WSJ, NYT and Wapo as well.

There have been tons of studies and reports noting how bad news is for you.

https://www.theguardian.com/media/2013/apr/12/news-is-bad-ro...

Frankly, social media became toxic when it got overrun by journalists and the news industry. Politics and news is why social media is so toxic.