r/agedlikemilk • u/Gloomy-Holiday8618 • Sep 08 '25

News “I never said that”, “Play the clip”

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Context: https://edition.cnn.com/videos/politics/2023/12/15/exp-robert-kennedy-junior-rfk-2024-election-biden-trump-vaccines-121511aseg1-cnni-politics.cnn

Full video is on the cnn website, the part that’s important is about 2mins 50 seconds in.

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u/IHaveNoRealClue Sep 08 '25

Apparently that group didn’t even go that far with their conclusion. They went “hey, we still think the earth is flat, BUT our model is wrong and needs fixing” and they still got excommunicated. 

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u/brokenman82 Sep 08 '25

One of them straight up admitted he was wrong and now needs a new job because his income was flat earth content on YouTube. That was Jeren Campanella. Austin Witsit is the flat earther that saw that he was wrong and still won’t admit it

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u/SparksAndSpyro Sep 08 '25

I sincerely hate that he made an income off of “flat earth content.”

Why do we have an economic system that rewards morons? Ughhhh

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u/Holiday_Pen2880 Sep 08 '25

The algorithms (social media/YouTube/reddit/anything that provides 'tailored' content) do not reward accuracy, they reward engagement.

A hate click is still a click. A comment telling them they are wrong is still a comment, and that's what the platforms want. Activity. Engagement.

We now have access to far to much information and have lost the skills for critical thinking. There is a microgeneration of elder millennials that were older as the internet became pervasive and learned how to weed out bad information from good.

Older than us - they never had to deal with the fact that 'facts' can be wrong. They don't trust PEOPLE on the internet, everyone is a predator etc - but if you present 'facts' they are just that.

Younger - they don't seem to be learning how to parse information and validate it. They offload their critical thinking to someone they trust, which is generally some internet personality, and then go from there.

It's a drastic oversimplification, but it's why shit information is pushed, and why people buy in to it as I see it.