Teens Debate Big Issues on Instagram Flop Accounts
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Teens Debate Big Issues on Instagram Flop Accounts
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#3Sad to see that for the new generation, "news" is equivalent to shitty Instagram pictures.
It's quite funny that they consider this as more trustworthy than conventional "news". Not saying conventional news is always right, but I'd still trust it more than pseudonymous accounts on a social network.
> “Flop accounts have a lot of people fact-checking each other instead of just depending on one source giving us information,” Dann said. “The fact that we’re all posting about these things means we all have to do research and it’s a lot of people completing these things together, not just one person, which makes us trust it more.”
Are they sure? I bet it's just one big echo chamber of people copy/pasting each other, just like every trend on social media (memes, etc).
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All the accounts quoted have <20k followers, some much less. Someone was looking for material.
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All the accounts quoted have <20k followers, some much less. Someone was looking for material.
Small accounts can be more influential than accounts that broadcast to millions of followers.
Witness the power of small Whatsapp groups for example.
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/07/18/technology/wh...
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#6Sad to see that for the new generation, "news" is equivalent to shitty Instagram pictures. It's quite funny that they consider this as more trustworthy than conventional "news". Not saying conventional news is always right, but I'd still trust it more than pseudonymous accounts on a social network. > “Flop accounts have a lot of people fact-checking each other instead of just depending on one source giving us informa…
Where did you see that young people think flop accounts are news? The article is about discussing issues on instagram, there is no mention of news.
Kids today grew up with the internet - knowing that big corporations we're slanting views/news from day 1 because they could go compare the same headline at fox, cnn, and nbc. Previous generations couldn't do that so easily. So a complete distrust of news shouldn't be surprising.. they aren't really very trustworthy in the first place.
These teens don't need to trust the instagram accounts, which is the whole point. The account just makes a post to bring up a discussion point, whether or not that point is fact-checked is irrelevant. (Its mostly gossip with political/moral/idealogical/etc angles anyway)/
Re: Teens Debate Big Issues on Instagram Flop Accounts
#7Sad to see that for the new generation, "news" is equivalent to shitty Instagram pictures. It's quite funny that they consider this as more trustworthy than conventional "news". Not saying conventional news is always right, but I'd still trust it more than pseudonymous accounts on a social network. > “Flop accounts have a lot of people fact-checking each other instead of just depending on one source giving us informa…
Where did you see that young people think flop accounts are news? The article is about discussing issues on instagram, there is no mention of news. Kids today grew up with the internet - knowing that big corporations we're slanting views/news from day 1 because they could go compare the same headline at fox, cnn, and nbc. Previous generations couldn't do that so easily. So a complete distrust of news shouldn't be sur…
> All the while, an increasing number of teens are turning to these types of accounts for news, seeing them as more reliable and trustworthy than traditional media.
It says it right there in the article.
My point is that conventional news can be biased, but they're much harder to bias than this nonsense. Conventional news would pretty much require the entire media company to be on your side, which would require a lot of money. This would only require a few fake accounts to skew, at maybe 1% the cost of what it takes to skew conventional news.
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I see it more as The Atlantic knowing who their paying audience is. It's definitely not the teens, probably their parents who also don't understand them and are looking for any clue.
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#9Sad to see that for the new generation, "news" is equivalent to shitty Instagram pictures. It's quite funny that they consider this as more trustworthy than conventional "news". Not saying conventional news is always right, but I'd still trust it more than pseudonymous accounts on a social network. > “Flop accounts have a lot of people fact-checking each other instead of just depending on one source giving us informa…
> Not saying conventional news is always right, but I'd still trust it more than pseudonymous accounts on a social network.
I beg to differ. I learn more viewpoints on HN than on media. CNN has reliably demonstrated systematically adding a spin to all their reporting (for example « women are the only victims of donestic violence and no women is guilty of anything », just by skipping the reporting on male victims), so much that Americans trust CNN lower than congress. At that point a mix of random viewpoints from Instagram, is way better than one media who claims to deliver the truth and reliably doesn’t.
If anything, news media need to seriously stop this nonsense, and at least it should not be possible with simple fact-checking to notice that they are spinning news all the way up to making falsehoods out of individually correct statements.
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#10Earlier quoted context omitted.
All the accounts quoted have <20k followers, some much less. Someone was looking for material.
Small accounts can be more influential than accounts that broadcast to millions of followers. Witness the power of small Whatsapp groups for example. https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/07/18/technology/wh...
You should submit this to HN.