Has Social Media Doomed Us?

I had been seeing them for some time but had just been skimming by. I finally had to tell FB to stop throwing conservative propaganda on my wall. I don't know why FB decided that I should see them and then why I should see post after post. Perhaps, in a spirit of acceptance and broad-mindedness, I once clicked on a semi-conservative post, but I honestly can't recall. Moderate conservatism is one thing, but braindead propaganda is quite another.

After I told FB to remove 3 or 4 of these posts within minutes, I thought I should capture a few before they were all gone. I won't go overboard, but you can see how they totally misrepresent  things, such as Netflix, Disney and CNN imploding. It's nonsense, but the faithful raise their hands in glee and shout glad hosannas to the Trumps, De Santos, Cruzes, and the myriad other lying cretins. 

Take a look at the Disney Woke cartoon for yet another pile of false, steaming merde. It's a variation of the Strawman logical fallacy, in which someone misrepresents something so that they can appear to tear it down in an argument. If you're good at it, people don't even notice that you have pulled a fast one but clap their hands in giddy agreement.

The sad thing is that millions are trapped inside the disinformation bubble of rightwing extremism, and they don't even know it. A recent study noted minds beginning to shift after Fox viewers were paid to watch CNN for just one month. 

Other than paying people, how do we get them out of their bubbles and to think critically? Sometimes, I think we are doomed.