Hrmph… I really don’t buy the idea that “big tech companies controlling our newsfeeds” is the root cause.
What happens on social media is more a symptom. People like to feel like they’re in a social group, and with like-minded people, and newsfeed algorithms are good at giving suggestions for that. But that’s not happening in a vacuum. Those groups of conspiracy theorists generally aren’t generating their own self-sustaining feed of theories. They’re sharing and expanding on things they get from elsewhere, from “trustworthy” people who are taking advantage of their worldview.
Yes, social media can do a lot more to dampen the feedback loop… but nothing social media does is ever going to solve the actual problem.
Yup. The EU was created to undercut he need for another war, and it has provided decades of peace and prosperity. So of course the right-wing is against it.
New texts revealed by Bankston on Wednesday appeared to show Jones signing off on more Sandy Hook conspiracy theories five years after the tragedy.
The phone documents also appeared to reveal Infowars’ long-hidden finances.
On an open microphone in a recess, Bankston asked his fellow lawyers: “You know what nobody’s thought about yet? What happens when that phone goes to law enforcement?
I would be very surprised if they gave that information over on purpose, considering that it really hurts their attempts to convince the jury and the court to keep the damages low. They’ve been claiming that any judgement over $2M would “sink” the Infowars business, but some of what was on the phone contradicts that, too.
It’s funny that Jones responded that “this is your Perry Mason moment”… those moments pretty much never happen in real life, but it was pretty accurate. I really don’t know why Jones seemed to think the opposing lawyer having a “Perry Mason moment” would be good for him, though.
