I’ve been noticing a wild pattern lately, I couldn’t tell if it’s either a ragebait or not but every single one of them seems quite confident with their wrong answer… Well most of the time they’re likely schrodinger asshole.

Some people in most social media (whether it’s tiktok, instagram or youtube) always say the most stupidest thing in a comment section, and most of the time they spread misinformation and believed those misinformation without doing any proper research which made me concerned.

One time someone argued with me that intel management engine on 2008-2010 chipset has a “crazy spyware backdoor” and I explained to them that most 2008-2010 chipset lack network stacking in order to be a proper backdoor and since those older chipset lack network stacking physically and needed vPro edition of the chip for network stacking.

I did some research more on why they believed that information and I found a popular tiktok video that went across my feed a few months ago which contained misinformation and did not clarify the vPro part.

Someone even admitted in my comment section that they’re doing research on the tiktok search bar… tiktok search engine isn’t even reliable for researching!

I seriously think I should take a break from social media, because how come these type of people even exist without any instinct of researching properly? Have you encountered people like this too? Please tell me I’m not the only one whose encountering these type of people.

  • bstix@feddit.dk
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    1 day ago

    Keep in mind that the algorithms will push the most engaging content to you, so you’ll see stuff that pisses people off the most. It’s literally upvoting troll accounts automatically.

    Anyway, whenever you encounter an actual account who is posting stupid false narratives, the best way isn’t to start arguing or throw links to true explanations and such.

    Instead, simply ask them “why do you believe that stupid shit?” and leave them to either investigate the matter themselves, thereby hopefully teaching them something, or let them back out with the typical non-answer like “do your own research” which itself undermines whatever they just said.