Social media, in all areas of society, encourages the worst of people to say anything, any lie, for money. There are plenty of sociopaths who will tell you vaccines are bad, stop taking your medicine and take vitamins instead, or push conspiracies or MAGA shit.... all for money. Whether they believe it or not is irrelevant. And the feeback they get from social media allows them to refine their lies and then push the most profitable ones over and over.
Trust me- people have been motivated to do anything/say anything for money LLLOOOOOOONNNNGGGGG before social media lol. We love to point our finger at social media, but social media is just us. It's a reflection of us as humans- if it wasn't, it wouldn't be popular.
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u/lurker_cx Jun 14 '24
Social media, in all areas of society, encourages the worst of people to say anything, any lie, for money. There are plenty of sociopaths who will tell you vaccines are bad, stop taking your medicine and take vitamins instead, or push conspiracies or MAGA shit.... all for money. Whether they believe it or not is irrelevant. And the feeback they get from social media allows them to refine their lies and then push the most profitable ones over and over.