“I think that society is turning on tech as a result.”
Our reading:
He thinks society is turning on tech as a result of the conduct he describes, including the degraded internet and the push of generative AI.
Assessment: Can’t be checked
What happened
Not graded on evidence
Outcome: Can’t be checked
An opinion, a recommendation, or too vague to test. Listed, not scored.
Evidence up to . Checked .
Why
The speaker frames this as his belief ('I think'). 'Society' and 'turning on tech' have no defined measure, and the claim rests on a loose causal link ('as a result') to several factors at once. Polls near the post date give a mixed picture. A February 2024 Pew survey found negative views of social media high but unchanged since 2020, and support for more regulation the same as in 2018. Such polls do not measure the causes he names. No fair plain reading gives a test that could confirm or refute the causal claim, so it is not scored.
Caveats
- A narrower reading such as 'public opinion of big tech fell in 2023–2024' could be tested with polls. The words he chose do not commit to that.
Evidence (1 item)
Claims like this aren’t scored, so there is no evidence to show.
How we judged it
- Kind of claim
- Causal claim
- Deadline
- None given. We don’t add one.
Conditions
- I think (their words)
Where we had to interpret
- The claim is a stated belief ('I think') that public sentiment toward the tech industry is worsening, because of degraded online services, hype cycles, and the generative AI push.
- Testing it needs both a measurable decline in public views of tech around April 2024 and evidence that the decline was caused by the factors he names. 'Society' and 'turning on' have no defined measure, and the causal link is not something polls can isolate cleanly.
We don’t grade claims like this. We only check the quote and who said it.
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Full record
Source and dates
Where's Your Ed At, They're Looting The Internet, paragraph 61.
- Said
- We read the source
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- Evidence up to
- Checked
We read this wording on 2026-10-28. The post may have been edited after 2024-04-15.
Where it was said (1)
Said once in the posts we read.
: Where's Your Ed At, They're Looting The Internet
I think that society is turning on tech as a result.
- Where
- paragraph 61
- Published
- 2024-04-15
- We read it
- , live page
- Access
- full text, public
History
Versions
- Current: Can’t be checked. Evidence up to 2026-10-28.
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