How people back in WWII knew about war crimes committed by the allied forces or axis powers? At the time: it’s not like you can just say “I’m posting this online!”, there was no such thing as Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, Reddit or Twitter (X) since they didn’t exist in 1939-45. The internet didn’t exist when Pearl Harbor was attacked, so that was only heard from word of mouth or tabloids (newspapers).
Now, when speaking about war crimes that the Americans, Brits or French committed during that era: people were oblivious about it at first only seeing them as liberators whilst overlooking their flaws (due to the propaganda floating about back then). They did kill German PoW’s, but how would the average joe in 1945 know that without the reliance of computers, search engines or social media feeds.
The thing is, how did normal people during that era manage to call out the Allies or Axis for their war crimes without the reliance of computers, social media or the internet (let alone livestream) during 1939-45? Japan did establish Unit 731, where Chinese and Allied PoW’s were subjected to brutal torture or human experimentation. How would people know its existence (let alone what goes on inside) during the 40s?
Social media is much more likely to be full of information that is NOT true than to be compltely devoid of information that IS true.
But to your point: that is why Israel now controls TikTok in the United States.
yeah. I do find they don’t put much into misinformation. I think its because all they need is the headline since most people do not read much more.
Tell me about it. I currently made a post and am getting hammered by morons who clearly only read the title, and not even very thoughfully at that.
did you post more than a title and link?
yes, and i regret it.
why? sounds like you did your part. if you had not given any more context then yeah its expected to get that but if you did then its on them to read the post. its understandable someone does not go off to another website but if the info is where they are hanging out then its on them.
well, it’s a little bit of a joke–i regret it because so many people didn’t read it.
ah. yeah. that happens. I put a long explanation edit to a small comment when I realized it was being taken differently than it was in my head. internets just like that. its hard to get a feel especially when we are all bouncing around.
His point was “it is up to the audience whether or not they trust the press.”
And that is 100% the case when it comes to social media.
That is a totally different topic and completely wrong.