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I am very bad at content classification on an open plattform. When i dont know the sender, i can barely tell about his or her intentions. Being bad at finding out about the intentions of a news article applies probably to you and everybody else as well. This is a big problem with social media that governments and companies are using to their advantage.

With classical media agencies you have a bigger chance at guessing their political views and intentions. Whether you like them or not is up to you. Most of these media agencies also take responsibility for the release of a piece of news.

This responsibility is missing with "individuals" who post on social media, they vouch for nothing and can only lose their account.

The right to post to an unlimited amount of people should be earned in my opinion. Right now the algorithms of the social media platforms even encourage controversial or aggressive posts which is the worst that can happen.




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