Is Social Media Keeping Us from Truth?

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In today’s digital age, the excuse of being uninformed holds less water than ever before. With the Internet at our fingertips, we’re swimming in a sea of information. Gone are the days of laborious hours spent scouring library shelves; now, the answers we seek are just a search query away.

However, in reality, just as not all that shimmers is gold, we must make a crucial distinction: What we have access to is unfettered data, but that alone does not equate to knowledge.

The existence of the gatekeepers, curse or bless them, imposed a certain standard for published work.

An agent had to take interest in your book. A publisher had to agree to invest in printing black ink on paper and an author’s advance. Thus, certain standards had to be met in order for ideas to see the light of day. While this system ensured a level of quality, we must also acknowledge that it sidelined voices and perspectives that may have held immense societal value.

Moreover, the act of writing a…