Detecting when you’re looking at slop is both
1. a vital media literacy skill in 2026
2. completely impossible and slowly drives you insane to the point of inevitably making false accusations
This is a perfectly fine thing to be expecting of reasonable, intelligent people and doesn’t at all forebode a general crisis of trust in society
Daphne Preston-Kendal
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2026-06-18 12:59:16 UTC
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