[logicchains]

It's a travesty that western countries have moved from trying to gain their people's support by improving their living conditions to trying to gain their people's support by lying to them, such that unrestricted discussion of the facts is such a threat to the governments in power.

[cbg0]

If only it were facts being discussed, but social media is plagued with alternative facts(aka lies) and no mechanism of getting rid of it, as reporting doesn't do anything since social media companies just fake compliance but take no serious action against disinformation.

This is all from my personal experience reporting egregious fake information (the kind you can check with the first google result) on social media sites and the content still exists.

[rdm_blackhole]

If we are going to go down that road, then what about the mainstream media then? How many lies have they gotten away with and never corrected?

I agree that misinformation is spreading on social media, but let's not forget that the mainstream media has been caught lying deliberately or by omission more times than I can count.

[cbg0]

No need for whataboutism, mainstream media lies are bad as well.