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The percentage of content hardly matters in regards to your point about news being in this business long before Facebook. It's ironic that news sources are poin
by elamje 8y ago
The percentage of content hardly matters in regards to your point about news being in this business long before Facebook. It's ironic that news sources are pointing fingers here since this has been their CORE product for years, minus the troves of data.
News channels make the extremely rare seem common, and the common seem like it doesn't exist. All to drive ad revenue. Now traditional news is rapidly becoming irrelevant and we see pay walls popping up left and right. I would argue that the news media is worse at propagating extreme fear and paranoia, than Facebook. At least a lot of Facebook content is funny/viral videos, whereas the news is 90+% negative