It seems like large group of people in some countries concern more about their tribal's believe than actual fact anyway.
Besides that, I don't think it's fair to blame medias alone when most country have rules and regulations to deal with unethical practices by News media. The same laws applied to the tradition News medias doesn't apply to a post on social medias, so there is no fact check, and this people suffer next to no consequences on their misinformation, including the social medias hosting it.
But at the same time those blaming traditional News media have no problem believe in whatever an unknown person on internet said. Start from, the virus wasn't real, and slowly change the argument to something else when more and more people sick and die, right? We have no way to know who is the person or people behind the keyboard on the social media. It could be a group, a country trying to mobilize division in another countries for a political gain while the traditional News media, we know where their office, who they are, who write the article, who can be be held accountable.
Well, anyway, I think I am lucky that I am not currently in a country with so many divisions and groups trying to pull one another legs in time like this. This is the time to help one another and help the country as a whole. Individualism in time like this is more or less a selfish act to me. I can't say the same back at home though!
Anyway, Happy New Year. Hope we all have a better and healthier year in 2022.
Last edited by tokyoscape; 12-24-2021 at 11:52 PM.