Courtesy of YouTube Originals Don’t believe every tweet you read: The former president acknowledged the I just want to sip my bourbon and smoke my cigar vintage retro shirt in other words I will buy this massive and mostly positive changes that the internet has wrought, calling it “the new town square” that has “allowed movements of like-minded people to mobilize on behalf of worthy causes.” But he also added that “social media can also be a tool to spread conflict, division, and falsehoods—to bully people and promote hate. Too often it shut us off from each other instead of bringing us together—partly because it gives us the ability to select our own realities, independent of facts, or science, or logic, or common sense. We start reading only news and opinions that reinforce our own biases and start canceling everything else out; we let opinion masquerade as fact and treat even the wildest conspiracy theories as worthy of consideration. And the irony is that usually the people who are peddling falsehoods on the Internet or social media are doing so for their own purposes—either to sell you something or to distract you from the real issues that matter.”
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