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The Echo Chamber of Social Media: Navigating the Misinformation Maze in 2025
In 2025, social media will continue to disappoint you or fail mankind as a whole.
The algorithm works against you. In politics, it is useless as a catalyst for change. Just as it was with VP Leni, the same was true for VP Kamala; they failed because their opponents used the old tactic of negative campaigning, amplified through the virality of social media.
Because social media is good at spreading lies, fake news, and misinformation.
Kamala Harris spent $1.5 billion, yet Trump got more votes than he did in 2016 and 2020.
Your posts are likely to be seen by your tribe, the same people who already believe what you believe.
There is zero chance that your post will change someone else’s opinion. This is how social media works; it only validates what you already think, as Facebook prompts you with “What’s on your mind!”
Almost all traditional media companies either ask for donations or are gated.
And the few who pay, as I do for The New York Times, will never be enough to turn the tide of what the future beckons, where people get their news from TikTok or from headlines nobody even finishes reading, much less the article itself.
