Warning: our democracy won’t survive the death of reading. Read on if you still can

339 points by kiyomoris 17 hours ago on reddit | 9 comments

psych0fish | 9 hours ago

Remember: social media wanted a strong pivot to video for no other reason than that they could charge more for video ads.

LanguidLandscape | 8 hours ago

This is an important point, particularly with Meta who fudged (aka lied) their numbers on how much response video was getting. They essentially created the conditions for video only via fake data and then, when it was too late and the truth was revealed, just shrugged. The damage was done and journalists, and any semblance of the truth or accountability, went out the window. Zuckerberg and the like have been fascists from the start and staunchly believe that they are smarter than everyone.

Simple_Song8962 | 8 hours ago

Zuckerberg sure isn't smart. He's very unintelligent. He's merely cunning and greedy, like all billionaires.

I_Downvoted_Your_Mom | 13 hours ago

Anyone got a TL;DR?

pinky_blues | 12 hours ago

Young people don’t read. Tik tok brain rot. News from brief video clips is not as informative, people lack context, critical thinking skills. Literacy goes down, misinformation goes up -> get the Trumps of the world -> democracy dies.

Contentedman | 12 hours ago

I see what you did there.

skwander | 12 hours ago

Bullys make rules when u no reed. V bad no cap frfr og

Biscuits4u2 | 11 hours ago

Idiocracy was a roadmap.