# Where is social media headed?

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**Created:** [April 21, 2022, 5:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-is-social-media-headed/963192 "2022-04-21T17:57:51Z")\
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> [@BigT](#):
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> we’ll get better at discounting the bullshit

That would be catastrophic. The world runs on bullshit.

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Perhaps that requires some clarification to avoid cynicism:

Bullshit is information presented without regard to truth. Therefore bullshit in a Venn diagram contains both all truth and all non-truth. And that allows the premises:

There is some truth in all statements - ie In God We Trust

There is some non-truth in all statements - ie In God We Trust

In God We Trust is obvious bullshit, but it sells well to a large media audience.

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