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Younger people increasingly get their news from social media, and they're exposed to a more diverse set of news. Meanwhile, older people tend to primarily get their news from traditional media.
There's a similar trend with support of Israel and Palestine https://www.axios.com/2023/10/26/generational-divide-on-the-israel-hamas-war
This shows just how propagandized traditional media is in the west.
Also good to remember that digital media can be just as propogandized if you interact with it at a base level. Shopping around for a wide breadth of sources and opinions should be viewed as standard requirement for forming a more accurate sense of world events.
Completely agree, and I think it's really valuable to see how events are being covered in different parts of the world.
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Social media dominantly uses algorithms that fine-tune user feeds according to what they think will lead to highest engagement and end up becoming personalized echo chambers. They provide the exact opposite of "a more diverse set of news".
Even with the algorithms tuning people's feeds the diversity of information and views online is very clearly far higher than it is in traditional media where editors decide what content is published, and how it's framed. You're also using a platform that doesn't use any algorithms to mess with the feed to write all this.