rainbowfoxes reblogged
It is overall indicative of how Terminally Online these freaks are that they think the release of Spotify Wrapped would be part of some geopolitical conspiracy. This is not something an offline person would ever conjure up. I can assure you my mom has no idea what Spotify even is.
Saw these tags on a post that wasn’t mine and they’re correct
And just to clarify: it Spotify Wrapped was released the Wednesday after American Thanksgiving. Same as usual.
This tells us something about the terminally online (which all of us can be, at times):
- We can fall for the illusion that posting genuinely shapes the course of real world events.
- Feelings of moral urgency overwhelmingly override any instincts to fact check.
- Netizens have no immunity to propaganda. Every aspect of the Spotify Wrapped Conspiracy should have triggered a “hmmmm” reaction. The steps to verify the claim were all obvious and free.
I don’t want to alarm anyone who reblogged that, but please know that was one slip down a pipeline.
Be careful next time. Think about why that post seemed believable.
- What ideas and ideals did it manipulate?
- How did they blend fact (Spotify is morally reprehensible) with conspiratorial thinking (secret cabals pulling strings) to give a lie the cloak of truth?
- Why did the grandiosity of the claim sneak by you? What made you believe the OP?
- What gut reactions did you listen to or perhaps ignore?
If you reblogged that post, your trust and innate goodness were manipulated and abused. Protect yourselves.
#politics#i/p#we KNOW there are bad actors deliberately spreading misinformation#our minimum duty of care is to fact check and confirm or debunk things before we share them#propaganda works by gently guiding you towards where it wants you to go#starting with things that might seem reasonable at first glance#and gradually escalating towards more and more extreme viewpoints#and the only way to protect yourself from this is to independantly fact check