MEPX
Chapter 9 of 10All chapters
  1. 1Devices and operating systems
  2. 2Files and folders
  3. 3The cloud
  4. 4Browsers and the web
  5. 5Privacy and metadata
  6. 6Searching well
  7. 7Email and messaging
  8. 8Accounts and identity
  9. 9Information and media
  10. 10Fixing things yourself

Chapter 9 of 10

Information and media

Reading a feed.

Why you see what you see

Feeds are ranked to hold attention, not to inform. Engagement-driven ranking favours content that provokes, which shapes what appears widespread.

  • Check the date; old stories recirculate constantly.
  • Reverse image search settles many misleading photo claims in seconds.

Generated content

Text, images and video are now cheap to fabricate. Fluency and polish are no longer evidence of authenticity, which raises the value of checking the source.