Information, knowledge and propaganda
There's a side-effect to social media and technology I didn't even realize was happening until this election. All the information being chosen by the computer to be put directly in front of our eyeballs is giving us the illusion that everything we ever need or want will be delivered directly there (to our eyeballs). I was doing social media for a friend for the last few months as she ran in a local election. We desperately made content, sometimes 2-3 videos, reels, carousels a day trying to further our reach organically. I read somewhere that we need to see something 8 to 12 time before we register it as a real thing that exists. The guy that started paid advertising 6 months earlier wound up winning the election. I wonder how much he spent on it. The guy who has spent the last 4 years forcefeeding his good deeds into neighbourhood facebook groups came in second. The anger with which people take to the comments. WHERE ARE ALL THE POLITICIANS, NOT A SINGLE ONE HAS...
