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Old 11-29-2016, 11:55 PM   #22
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Worst thing I've seen about social media is how buzzfeed / upworthy / nowthis / etc - style infographic videos are the only way a lot of millenial / gen Z are getting their news, just forcefed to them by these media companies. Much of it is just a super-condensed version of the story narrative. The video you @Mr.Impreza linked mostly follows that style but at least is well fleshed out. But seriously, all these videos are just copycat of that style, and its FUCKING ANNOYING.

And the way shit is spread around without any kind of fact checking. Here's a couple examples that I've seen posted by friends who obviously didn't know better:



Or maybe this video that has been spread around by thousands of people:

[ame="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H_j4ySi3RZY"]A man exposes cereal companies for putting poison in their cereal! - YouTube[/ame]


Believe me I feel bad for sharing these. If you can't see the holes in the argument and are blindly posting shit like this, please just stop.
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