Which social media do you consider a trustworthy source of information?
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In your opinion, which platform do you trust the most and the least?
Personally, I find it difficult to determine the best one, but I can confidently say the platform I trust the least, as I’ve encountered the most fake users there.
• The least I trust: Facebook
• The most I trust: (maybe?) Reddit
What about you?
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André J@sentry_co
More importantly. Why is reddit more trustworthy? I think maybe because each sub has their own human guardians. Hyperbole is discouraged. vs LI / Face / X etc. Where hyperbole and anti truth works like flypaper, and algos go wild. On reddit, if you hyperbole, or make engagement-bate posts, you will not even be able to post it because the admins will remove it for not being newsworthy.
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@busmark_w_nika Problem with non-reddit SoMe's is that anti-truth is encouraged, because it creates more controversy. If I say something that is not true, it will get 100x views because people will react to it emotionally. Reddit rewrads newsworthyness. Hence why its a better source of truth. But this can change. If other SoMes finetune their algos to favour newsworthyness over controversy for controversy sake. I think it will happen. I think people are tiered of the drama.
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@sentry_co They are very strict that's the truth but on this media, I have never received such kind of scam. It is well moderated but as you said, very hard to push something through certain communities. Too much clustering (bubbles, echo chambers) so this way the information are for me more decluttered and when I start to understand how each of those individual communities thinks, the information is better sorted for me.
But as I said, this is valid for me, not for others that's why I asked.
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When it comes to some (marketing) potential, I trust the most to YouTube and the Newsletter.
That's why I invite you to subscribe both:
👉 YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@busines...
👉 Newsletter: https://businessandmarketing.sub...
Unfortunately, these days, you can't trust anything.
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Ha ha - I trust X and Reddit the most, rest all are very spammy and artificial - I find reddit most authentic
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@shabb_katoch yep, X has many things in the feed but lately shows me some non-related stuff to me :D
X and Reddit are most trustworthy for me, rest other feels like more of a marketing platform rather than information sharing platforms.
Well, I don't about reddit 🤣 in case of "TRUST" but I guess its a good place to find leads!
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@26th_official I also heard this info on X :D
Imho, we can't define the trustworthiness of any platform because they're just tools.
You can find people with good and bad intentions on all of them. Always DYOR!
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@terabitcoins The internet used to be better place (I literally moved from TV to the internet not to see what was in TV). Now, the content from TV is on the Internet.
@busmark_w_nika Facts! Sad but true.
I like Reddit. It has a unique community-driven vibe, where people often engage in deep discussions, and the upvote/downvote system helps highlight the most credible content.
Think Facebook is definetly the least reliable there's so much misinformation on there
Interesting thoughts! I also find Facebook to be a bit sketchy at times with so much misinformation floating around.
X and YouTube
I totally get where you're coming from! I agree that Facebook can have a lot of fake accounts
In my point of view you're right about Facebook it's tough to trust with all the fake accounts. Reddit is a good platform for trustworthy discussions