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I'm not sure if i follow you when you mention YouTube.

I thought just yesterday how YouTube changed the world again on making knowledge much more accessable than ever before.

I have seen very well done YouTube videos debunking things, explaining things, visual showing things.

I asked my mother about cooking and in here time, you needed to go to a cooking class. I have already more diverse cooking experience thanks to getting inspired and learning certain aspects of cooking through youtube.

Facebook? just burn that shit.

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Even the most gullible among us don't fall into the conspiracy theory trap by reading 140 characters (I hope). YouTube videos with decent production quality, which these days is accessible to anyone, lend some credibility to the content. Then you get the next recommended video, on the same topic, with some different bits of evidence but the same conclusion and equally well made.

If you were to replace the paragraph about cooking classes with one that lauded “A better way to understand who’s really in power in this country and the sick things they’re up to” you would have made a comment that is both a) totally believably real in the current climate (and actually exists many times over in variously worded approximations), and b) the perfect example of what I’m talking about.

I'm also seeing a lot of good videos explaining political views or debating them.

The flat earth movement for example spun up on youtube and is going down again.

Which feels to me that there are mechanism in place or persistency on information sharing which of course can go both directions, but its harder to just be in your own bubble.

Nonetheless, i did not use a political example because i wanted to make my point on something non controversial and still highly positive.

Woodworking, car repair, item testing (the guy who tests 20 brands of oils, blades, tools etc.

Im not sure though, completly what your point is though, i hope i understood it correctly.

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