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This slide from @j12t 's talk at #WebSocialBr is terrifying. "I fear for my children when they won't be able to tell what is true and what is not."

A graph showing that most people get their news from social media. A note that Elon Musk plans to rewrite the entire corpus of human knowledge with AI.

Paul Fuxjaeger

@cypherhippie@chaos.social replied · 2 days ago

@evan @j12t

I expect the opposite:

Next generations will be more proficient in source criticism than we think we currently are.

Why?

I’ve seen mountains of distorted and incoherent stuff being pushed onto students. All pre genAI.

genAI forces us to adapt our ‘epistemic systems’, so much so that we will be able to identify pre genAI nonsense better.

Johannes Ernst

@j12t@j12t.social replied · last week

This screenshot obscures the legend and source, sorry for the buildup. The source for the diagram and the research behind is is: https://www.niemanlab.org/2025/06/for-the-first-time-social-media-overtakes-tv-as-americans-top-news-source/

/cc @evanprodromou @mpjgregoire @joemcl @MegaMichelle

Nieman Lab

For the first time, social media overtakes TV as Americans’ top news source

Plus: The pivot to video is really happening, digital subscriptions may have peaked, and other findings from RISJ's 2025 Digital News Report.

M. Grégoire

@mpjgregoire@cosocial.ca replied · last week

@evan @j12t Social media is the green line, is it?

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