I'm a qualified no. I think both on the Fediverse and on siloed social networks, there are a lot of news accounts. The realtime updates are a great way to find out that something is happening right now.
So people don't click; they comment on the headline (notoriously the least accurate part of the article) and thumbnail image (which might not even be related to the content).
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in reply to Evan Prodromou • • •But there are a lot of problems with news on social networks. First is conflating news organizations with our social contacts.
The New York Times is not my aunt; I do not care about it and want to encourage or engage with it in the same way I do with people I care about.
And my aunt is not the New York Times; she has not been fact checked nor has she verified two independent sources for her posts.
Mixing personal contacts with news sources in the same stream is a problem for both.
Evan Prodromou
in reply to Evan Prodromou • • •So people don't click; they comment on the headline (notoriously the least accurate part of the article) and thumbnail image (which might not even be related to the content).
The conversation that comes out is not great.