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Social Media Distortion Dilemma

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Michael Foster
Feb 17, 2026
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I watched a 17-year-old explain how he was running about twenty YouTube channels. One covered the Russia–Ukraine war. He didn’t know much about it and didn’t care to. He just saw that it performed. He copied a successful channel, ran scripts through AI voiceover, pulled royalty free footage, reused the same keywords, and made about six thousand dollars …

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