Any of u watch Winnie the Pooh: Blood and Honey

@SW-User Look, I know you're a boomer, probably way older than me so you don't understand this current generation, but we live in the information age these days. When someone says something in media or in a podcast or whatever these days or a politician says X, people can now pretty quickly find out if it's true or not. Mainstream news on television is dead.

@IWasCallingYaLarry Dude, I'm not saying this is fake. I've read other accounts of this. I'm sure it's true.

And look, here's how I see it about the news.

If you want reliable information, pay good money for it. At present, we all know that most "news" sites are just giving you exciting headlines that cost you nothing in exchange for your attention (and clicks). You pay nothing for the news, you get a low-quality product and then you become part of the product cos your attention is first captured by the crappy headline and then sold to politicians or advertisers.

In today's world, information and attention are CRITICAL. It's bonkers to give up your attention for free and get low quality information in exchange. We pay for good quality food, phones, cars, etc. Why not pay for good quality information? Newspapers have their biases as well, of course, but they at least make an honest effort to find the truth. Some "online only" newspapers are just brainwashing machines admittedly.

Also, if you read about something that is really important to you, like you have a genuine concern that the COVID vaccine is causing people to drop dead all over the world because YoutTube said so, then make the effort to read relevant scientific literature. I.E. peer-reviewed articles, books by well-known academic publishers and the writings of professors from reputable institutions. Science has limitations and has been wrong in the past, but it has been our most reliable knowledge source for centuries. If you think they're wrong, then it's possible, but provide some empirical evidence of your own. That's just an example btw.

@IWasCallingYaLarry And what you seem to forget is that a lot of people, if they've seen something on YouTube that reinforces their particular belief, they don't WANT to be told that it's not true, so they will dismiss all fact checks that contradict them as biased or a cover up by Them. Even if they can pretty quickly determine what is true or not.