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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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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.
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.
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.
X and YouTube
YouTube is also cool, IMO.
Without a doubt, my intention is not to promote anything, which is why I won’t mention the name of the plugin, however, I can assure you that YouTube—despite how it may seem—is an excellent news source. Using RSS, I created a plugin that retrieves news from popular media outlets and analyzes those same news stories on YouTube to find related videos. 74% of the time, it successfully finds a video related to a given news story. So, in short, YouTube is a wonderful means of communication.
Ha ha - I trust X and Reddit the most, rest all are very spammy and artificial - I find reddit most authentic
yep, X has many things in the feed but lately shows me some non-related stuff to me :D
Unfortunately, these days, you can't trust anything.
It is sad but true.
Just Reddit mostly.
do you also post here? If yes, how do you manage that you are not blocked from posting?
I post here sometimes, but the posts don't come up to the top* for some mysterious reason.
Pity :D I wanted to have some good guidance :D
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: 👉 Newsletter:
Most trusted: Reddit, because of the in-depth discussions and niche communities, though it depends on the subreddit.
True. Moderators are very strict about things.
X and Reddit are most trustworthy for me, rest other feels like more of a marketing platform rather than information sharing platforms.
I dunno... X is now full of irrelevant things for me – crypto etc. Like the algo pushes me totally random stuff.
📈 I trust `LinkedIn` the most. 🔝 Without a doubt, I trust `Facebook` the least. 📉
LI – do you have there some regular news? Because on this platform it is more about career successes.
Highly recommend Rednote(小红书), in China, whatever we wanna do, such as planning a travel, find a roommate, even find a partner for my cat, we would use Rednote to find the information we trust.
Isn't it in chinese?
There are a lot of American users download it recent days, because the vibe of this community is kind. You can give it a try.
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