M.I.A. wants to sell you $100 tinfoil hats

[tanglespiders]

M.I.A. drops conspiracy-tinged streetwear line, including a 5G-blocking tin foil bucket hat https://t.co/lMTY8kzlwR pic.twitter.com/eZjYARvn8v
- The Daily Dot (@dailydot) June 24, 2024
- M.I.A. has launched a new conspiracy theory-laced fashion line where else but TikTok, followed by an appearance on the soon-to-be-liquidated Infowars (incidentally,

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[sanditar]

Some people deserve to be scammed.

I have a coworker that would get this, she gets her news from facebook for starters, have shown me obvious ai videos as real and I try to tell her to always reverse search when something is too weird or out there but she falls every time. And she's not even old.
She's the "omg did you guys see the news about so and so.." and I just

[screamingintune]

I don't think age is too closely related to falling for AI, it seems like media literacy is a problem across the generations

[sanditar]

Yeah, since she's my age, I'd expect her to know a bit of these things.

But I'm 37 and I remember access to a home computer at 11 (and I'm in México that for most people would have to go a café Internet to rent a computer. Anyway all of this to say is that another coworker who is 25 does everything with her phone barely knows how to send an email on a pc.

Like 🤷🏾‍♀️🤔

[sandstorm]

Right like this is the website that fell for Poo Crave tweets about Mayo's drug use.