This
is in continuation of my immediate precedent blog viz. The curious case of the term -> 'Fact Checked' w.r.t. Social Media.
Travesty was, presumptions auto converted into facts which in turn became unwritten doctrines whose ghost authors were never found & as always were hidden behind veils in apocalyptic bunkers misusing puppets around sphere who danced on blood floors on their behest . And this is certainly how several academic books were written. This is certainly how felicitations distributed. And this is certainly how society evolved.
If a toddler attracts million hits on social media, that doesn’t mean adults too start acting ‘alike’ toddler or this becomes a theory in marketing syllabus & started being taught in business schools. Nor the Sales Executives should pretend alike for closures of their respective quarterly targets. They would act accordingly within their own parameters & standards. But rather strip teasing facts to extract it from fiction, what’s the real real is now unfathomable. An Open system doesn’t mean uncontrollable system. A closed system doesn’t mean absolute controllable. Issue is, ‘in verbatim’ followers became policy makers for years/decades & their minds restricted to (I’m sorry to say) but selfsame to intra-day traders, short sighted. Articulation is good as long as it’s able to discern any outcome.Ever wondered why we say let
a child get refined initial schooling? Because quality of initial schooling forge
the Traits of any Child henceforth & NEVER the Higher Education. FACT! And
even if Traits aren’t ameliorated (generational or not), still the intensity of
that could be controlled.
Social Media giants are no longer restricted to some Chat/Acting Pretentious sharing applications’ makers BUT have diversified into several distinct domains from FMCG to Technology to Service Industry to Aerospace to Real Estate & that goes on & on. I’m never against any Research or Advanced Science. What I’m against is severe conflict of interests & promoters of detestable doctrines. Playing a Context Creator or Fact Checker suo moto sans any locus standi & intervening in evolving expressions or different perspectives (including unintentionally forging it with misleading) would not work. Of course, something which is ascertained to its level best or accepted in general or decreed or arduous to counter or contest or challenge is different all together.
Not every Notion can be Fact
Checked. Indeed! But the intervention itself should be able to pass litmus
tests which include- > under what capacity was it done?; followed by the
methods involved in good faith; and lastly without existing any conflict of
interests or motivations.
Social Media is indispensable
& so as online platforms post Covid. Thence, the ‘fact-checking’ or context
created for forging distinct viewpoints must pass litmus tests as mentioned herein
above else would only trigger severe implications.