We're living in different times because of the way we receive and curate data as an individual.
Before social media, you'd watch the news, radio etc with your family, people in your community and workplace, as a group it probably made sense to agree to getting vaccinated.
In 2021 its "my choice", to not do x and to y.
In 2021 people come primed to a discussion or a decision with a huge artillery of "facts" they've spent time being recommended by algorithms.
This seems to be unique and unparalleled in history.
> Why didn't social media step up and feed a huge artillery of "facts" to encourage people to do the "right" thing and get the vaccine jab?
Would that have been profitable for them in all cases? If it wasn't, then they didn't.
it's not just the effort of "step up", which I have seen on social media. It's the effort to suppress disinformation, which although we have seen some, a lot more gets through. I haven't seen much antivax stuff, but that's because the algorithms know me. You have to understand how much of the "on social media" experience is tailored to you, and how much YMMV. And how it's driven by engagement for profit, not by "stepping up" to do the right thing.
Before social media, you'd watch the news, radio etc with your family, people in your community and workplace, as a group it probably made sense to agree to getting vaccinated.
In 2021 its "my choice", to not do x and to y.
In 2021 people come primed to a discussion or a decision with a huge artillery of "facts" they've spent time being recommended by algorithms.
This seems to be unique and unparalleled in history.