Please note that (in case you wish to comment or reply to this post / article) my pronoun is “Boss“.
I wrote about the Sydney Sweeney story in the news a while back — see “On the Internet …” [ https://socio.business.blog/2025/08/01/on-the-internet ].
Yesterday one of my colleagues shared this article with me:
(Roughly) Daily
“It is even more urgent that we learn to look passionately and technically at stories, if only to protect ourselves from the false and manipulative ones being circulated among us.”*…
https://roughlydaily.com/2025/09/27/it-is-even-more-urgent-that-we-learn-to-look-passionately-and-technically-at-stories-if-only-to-protect-ourselves-from-the-false-and-manipulative-ones-being-circulated-among-us
While I enjoy the imagery used, I find that there is too little criticism of fake and false narratives used to sell crap to suckers. (See also my own writings about “suckers” and “sucker” mentality, etc.)
Fuck With News 
The point about false narratives being used to sell crap to suckers really resonates. Seen similar patterns in celebrity culture where the fiction is more profitable than the truth. That kind of critical
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Hi Lily 🙂
It seems like I can’t see your whole comment — can you continue or try again?
🙂 Norbert
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