Is It Time to Regulate Social Media Influencers?

What’s really creepy is how a lot of marketing companies are paying students in medical school to recommend their products. Apparently doctors recommending things is a technique that doesn’t work anymore so any group that still has “credibility” in the public’s mind is apt to be persuaded to be an “influencer”.

Another disturbing example from recent memory...Doris Kearns Goodwin, the esteemed Harvard historian pitching (ever so slightly) for Goldman Sachs via ads on the site Axios

Good rule of thumb is to not believe 80% of what you read on the internet. If you don't have enough information on a topic, defer coming to judgement because its so easy to be misled by the authors point of view. If you do have enough information, employ some critical thinking skills. Information has become the new fast food, it is tasty and you can consume a lot but it is really of low nutritional value. Ironically the best way to thrive in this new world is to limit the use of technology, and spend more time in reflection.

Regulate? Probably not.

Ignore? Absolutely.

Guess I'll stand alone in condemning it.

Any time you start with "is it time to regulate..." The answer is always NO.