[logicchains]

>You are downvoted, but you are totally right. Humans are not meant to cry daily over stuff that happens half a world away

You mean humans are not meant to learn about the atrocities their government is funding half a world away.

[Aerbil313]

No, governments are not meant to be able to fund atrocities half a world away. Just as your body is not meant to sit at a chair and your eyes are not meant to look at a distance of 50cm for 8 hours a day.

The entire current human existence right now is at odds with human biology and psychology. One has to swim against the current just to be physically, mentally and spiritually healthy.

[bethekidyouwant]

Were our ancestors physically mentally and spiritually healthy? When exactly was this?

[wiseowise]

It’s what news made by reputable sources is for.

[ebbi]

It's the 'reputable' news sources that have often pushed misinformation and half-truths, often in subtle ways.

Just do a review of BBC headlines for it's coverage on the Israel-Palestine conflict. Many headlines where Israel was the aggressor were passive, never naming Israel as the aggressor, but whenever it was aggression from the Palestinian side, it was highlighted.

Even the death toll in Gaza, where for the last few years the headlines, when reorting on the death toll, often stated 'unconfirmed', or 'Hamas-provided', to cause doubt in the numbers, when historically, the numbers provided by Hamas were relatively accurate, and just the other day the IDF admits that the ~70k death toll is realistic.

[SkipperCat]

Social media is not designed to keep you informed. Its designed to keep you engaged because that helps them sell ads. And the best way to keep you engaged is to keep you enraged. I've seen in the US how social media has been used push false narratives, hate and other falsehoods. Its toxic.

If you really want to stay informed, there are plenty of newspapers, NGOs and other organizations out there reporting the truth.

[logicchains]

>I've seen in the US how social media has been used push false narratives, hate and other falsehoods. Its toxic.

And for decades before that mainstream media was used to push false narratives with absolutely no alternatives. Or have you forgotten about the Iraq War?

[sunaookami]

>If you really want to stay informed, there are plenty of newspapers, NGOs and other organizations out there reporting the truth.

And they don't report on that kind of stuff because they either support it themselves or are indirectly funded by the government.