And now that no one trusts any kind of expert, we've ended up with millions of various conspiracy peddlers believed by billions too uneducated to even begin to parse fact from fiction. Sort of like taking the centralized religion/opinion/censorship problem and smashing it into tiny shards that get on everything.
At least when there were 2, 3, or 10 curated sides to a story, with sources and expertise to draw on, a somewhat literate person could draw some conclusions on which parts of each were valid.
I'm not saying that legacy media outlets don't deserve the criticism they get. They abused their position for a century - mostly to support government war propaganda and the arms industry. But also to support liberal-sounding causes to distract from those things, some of which turned out to be hypocritical or didn't show the full picture.
What I'm saying is that what has replaced the traditional media system - tiktok, youtube and reddit - is way, way worse in terms of breeding a population of crazy and paranoid people who can't get a handle on anything at all that's happening in the world.
In your instance, for every person who's been redpilled about men's rights there's two people who hear that phrase and have a nearly hysterical response that it's toxic and evil. So all that has been accomplished is that everyone's fucking nuts now.
If you started with enough historical understanding and grounding to be able to tell when the media was lying, you didn't need social media to explain it to you. If you didn't start with that, and went straight to social media, you are going to become a sociopath with a completely disoriented understanding of the world, guided only by what other random sociopaths online tell you is true in your feed.
This is infinitely worse than having your information gate-kept by people who you can judge are sometimes lying to you, and having to work hard and put in some research to seek your own answers. This is dumbasses with bullhorns telling you whatever lies they just came up with, to sell you vitamin supplements. Who will take both sides of every issue just for clicks and likes.
Uh… no. What made me look into a subject that it often called a conspiracy theory (men’s rights) was the several levels of obvious bullshit that newspapers were delivering. Think about it: The only thing they had to do was to say lies that seem right, and they didn’t even succeed at that.
So no, it’s not the mediatization of the opposite point of view that gives it an audience, but the sheer lack of truthfulness of the dominating class.
No thanks. The last time this happened we ended up with opinionated articles, hidden promotions, and censorship in news, media, newspapers, etc.
A good example:
try searching for "fluoride residue in brain" on Google vs Yandex and see how they tell totally opposite stories.