[balls187]

This is a key insight.

Tabloid Journalism is known to be sensational and easily dismissed as such because of the medium, and that people in our social circles don't often peddle anything more than the latest celebrity/sports gossip.

Social Media has allowed mis/disinformation to become more credible by both the scale of distribution for that content, and the increasing that contents trustworthiness by highlighting engagement from people in our social circles.

[ldbooth]

]I would also add that a journalist is accountable to their reputation and journalistic standards while an algorithm has no reputation to uphold and therefore can run wild under the surface with no accountability.

What if Skynet was a social media algorithm... could be a good basis for the Terminator origin story.