“Sure, you can get everything on social media now anyway. Like too many, the man had learned to disregard researched local, regional, and national information over social media posts and clickbait. “Thanks to their digital channels, local newspapers have never had so many readers and have never been more relevant to their communities,” he assured me. That’s the difference: newspapers value the truth; they seek it out — bad actors on social media are entirely different. Disinformation thrives online but I’m confident, having listened to Bob Hughes, that we’ve enough cop on to thwart it if we continue to work together to shut it down through traditional media.

Source: Irish Examiner October 11, 2024 12:00 UTC