same reason they trust *news* by x users

most people don't wanna be challenged and only believe those that confirm what they believe

That's the deception of being behind a screen.
It's just TOO easy to FAKE anything, especially with AI these days.

Don't trust anything that you see on a screen.

Originally posted by R-S!N:

That's the deception of being behind a screen.
It's just TOO easy to FAKE anything, especially with AI these days.

Don't trust anything that you see on a screen. :TheFall:

They faked things without AI for decades just fine, even hiding the fact that one president was in a wheel chair, and that Biden was fully demented.

So here's the paradox

Folks say not to trust the mainstream media and instead get their news from twitter users and commentators
But the twitter users and commentators they listen to instead... all just regurgitate what the mainstream media says.

The sad faces of msm when decentralized media and radio gave people more options to get the nonpropaganda version

Because the alternative is the same but with the sources of payment obfuscated so you think they're a "citizen journalist" when they're actually an agent for someone with a vested interest in making you think a certain way; and worse, in you congratulating yourself for it, because you have totally superior sources of information compared to all the hapless peons that you totally aren't because you're so totally smart.

Most mainstream media is owned by the Murdochs or other right wing billionaires. So yeah, you should be skeptical by default.

But just because msm is untrustworthy doesn't mean decentralised media is much better. Decentralised media also can have similarly bad incentives. Like youtubers being paid by millionaires, billionaires, or Russia to push their propaganda is basically the same thing as most of msm being owned by like 5 billionaires.

Yes the sweet spot was the initial breakaway from msm but before bad actors started paying money for the decents to push a view

The first thing a fascist regime does is create distrust in the news. Then they try to get you to only trust them.

Originally posted by XxTTHREExX:

The first thing a fascist regime does is create distrust in the news. Then they try to get you to only trust them.

but no one with a brain trusts their government

For example you couldnt get any solid news on adverse reactions, or dissenting doctors, or people being fired and treated poorly who believed in body choice, from the official msm narrative and had to seek it elsewhere to get the whole story.

Originally posted by OMG!:

Because the alternative is the same but with the sources of payment obfuscated so you think they're a "citizen journalist" when they're actually an agent for someone with a vested interest in making you think a certain way

Exactly. Scepticism is a practice that shouldn't be exclusive to privately funded broadcasting (incl. public ofc); those civic nationalist neocon Twitter journalists are just as sociopolitically deluded as the talking heads on legacy media.

It's the latest way of the blind leading the blind through the next most convenient alternative form of readily available propagation for mainstream consumption to play a useful part in conditioning you to their left-right spectrum game.

The fact is, in 2025, you really can't trust anything.

It's easier than ever before to fabricate media: it is literally faster and easier to whip up fake footage on your laptop than it is to get real footage, even of something that exists right down the street.

The labor system is basically just globalist slavery, business markets are ponzi schemes, and governments are caricatures of Orwellian dystopiae.


Due to all this, people are forced into a faith-based reality system. I tend to think that's on purpose, since getting people to take something 'on faith' is the most powerful and immediate method of mass propaganda.

From there, it should be no surprise that most end up religiously following whatever source got in the door first and/or whichever is most easily identifiable to their pre-existing notions.


Realistically, whatever "truth" there may be to find consists of frankenstein-ed bits and pieces from dozens if not hundreds of sources. You won't find a complete and accurate story from any single outlet, even from the very few that are honestly and sincerely trying. The best we can do at this point is absorb every take we can find, see where details coincide - and also where they're silent in common.

why do people trust mainstream news and media?

They like the celebrity personality which translates to trusting or looking up to them

They hang out and socialize with other people who also watch and like the same personality / show.

They've grown up trusting these people, and kids generally look up to adults

The brainwashing has been going on for a long time, most people don't realize they are brain washed.

Most people think their personal views and opinions are objectively good and correct and better than any other opposing view. Probably their opinion of the position doubly confident when they speak in alignment with their favorite personality.

People tend to trust someone else for information, rather than search out for them selves of what is factual and true and is founded in reality.

People prefer to go with the flow.

In a world of lies and misinformation, finding what is true takes work and effort.

a government is like a dog. you can trust it as long as there isn't any cheese in the house.