The owner of the largest and most influential media platform in all human history, Twitter, that spans all the world’s religions and all the world’s languages (Unicode) and all the nations of the world with Internet TCP/IP reach… is ADMITTING in public that there are “mind viruses” used by media networks.
Are people now seeing why Elon Musk’s $44 Billion purchase of Twitter makes sense? He is saying out loud what used to be only spoken in secret by billionaires. (Context NOTE: I used to work for 2 of the 3 richest billionaires in social media systems in the late 1990’s, I was a consultant in Bellevue Washington and was directed to give consulting advice to Bill Gates’s father (Preston Gates law firm), and I was hired to work on private staff of Paul Allen co-founder of Microsoft, my office in Bellevue was 10 doors down from Vern Raburn and Paul Allen in 1997 / I was social messaging systems manager, I had Edward Snowden level access to Microsoft Board of Directors comms)
The implications of Elon Musk disclosing that media platform owners spread “mind virus” is not getting attention - THE IMPLICATIONS of full disclosure of this on Saudi Arabia / Mecca / Rupert Murdoch global media systems, etc can NOT BE OVERSTATED!
You don’t want to discuss the richest man in the world disclosing that there can be such a thing as “Mind Virus” in human populations and he is actively manipulating them with his media empire, do you? Little short-length Twitter-length Twitter-thinking commentary to change the subject, instead.
I teach Media Ecology on this Lemmy community: !MediaEcology@lemm.ee
There are a lot of things about media ecology you don’t grasp related to Twitter. For one, every HDTV news network and newspaper constantly covers postings off Twitter, it has vast reach beyond the users of the site - when a story is shared on Fox News about a Twitter message, the television audience of Fox News HDTV does not get counted as “twitter logins” and accounts. But it still makes it the most influential and reaching media platform in human history.
Same goes for magazines, newspapers, books, all kinds of media that copy content off Twitter. Again, media ecology understandings from teachers like University of Toronto Marshall McLuhan and New York University Neil Postman will help you understand the forest for the trees.
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“If politics is like show business, then the idea is not to pursue excellence, clarity or honesty but to appear as if you are, which is another matter altogether.” ― Neil Postman, Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business, 1985 !BackTo1985@lemm.ee