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0 pointsrightbyte1y ago0 comments

I feel gaslighted when "fake news" is brought up by people, that consider CNN etc to be somewhat reputable. Like, the atmosphere on those sites are surreal nowadays. There are fake news, fake ads etc.

Like a article with a picture of some fat person, a picture of a child star, and the headline "you can't believe how child star whatever looks like today!". But the fat person is not the former child and nowhere to be seen in the article, etc.

Those sites are as reputable as pornsites.

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palmfacehn1y ago

These are the same sites that platform the doom-mongers warning us of the dangers of "disinformation" and appealing for censorship. The viewers may merely be victims of the propaganda. Those disseminating the propaganda should be held to a higher standard.

rightbyteOP1y ago

There is this establishment push to push news down our throats as people turn off their outlets.

Like algorithmic feeds in general. And e.g. the Windows startmenu and what not.

Tradionally people chose what news publishers to follow. Like, it was one newspaper that you liked politically or journalisticly.

News used to be opt-in and you chose your affiliation. The angle of the publisher was known.

Nowadays it is a joke. A washed out joke. You need to go for the more radical political papers to get what most papers used to be in the 90s.

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