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My mom was kind of addicted to one of those fake news buzzfeed kind of online communities. She used to send me these posts like every day.

Spent about two months deliberately destroying each and every "scientific article" she sent me. It was a pseudo-scientific trash fake news kind of page and pretty much every article was just made up or had same kind of communities as a reference. I just googled the shit out of each and every topic.

She's unsubscribed now.

Feels good. I noticed that most of people of previous generations really need to be taught how to use google. Some of these communities are full-blown propaganda machines spreading things like anti-vaxx or similar.

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  • 5
    5y
    She's a Ph.D. and she still failed to resist that kind of fake news. They make this articles somehow addictive on purpose to have a medium that enables them to spread pretty much any ideas that will be taken without a doubt.
  • 11
    5y
    Unfortunately not only the people of "previous generations". So many grow up with digital media and do not question anything.

    Anyway: Good work!
  • 1
    5y
    @sbiewald of course but pretty much all my friends are resistant to that kind of manipulations
  • 2
    5y
    1. assume everything written online has an agenda, and lies to you. also offilne.
    2. see rule 1.
  • 0
    5y
    We'll, it's easier to trust something that conforts you into your ideas/beliefs instead of questioning it.
  • 1
    5y
    It wouldn't be advisable to use Google for fact checking as it is a propaganda machine itself :)
  • 1
    5y
    It is good to have patience and teach the older generation this.
    They have after all taught us a lot. Least we can do. Specially loved ones.
    Good job OP
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