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illuminated ◴[] No.23349385[source]
I know it is "never too late" for things like this to happen, but it's definitely late.

One of the main reasons for bad things to happen is the lack of education (which, in turn, leads to resist to change) and, therefore makes people prone to believe to unbelievable things.

Social platforms like Twitter should have long had things like "fact checking" ANY statements and should have restricting not only violence glorifying posts, but also the ones with racial or sexual discrimination and all the others .

It is late, but I like seeing it happen at least for the person with the most "glorifying" record in dividing a society.

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woodrowbarlow ◴[] No.23349529[source]
the moment society started to see social media as a source of news, the battle was lost. nobody ever used myspace to stay fresh on the situation in the balkans.
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1. illuminated ◴[] No.23349592[source]
Yeah, I agree, but they used main stream media which was also heavily polarized, offering one point of the view only.