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Why do rich people buy newspapers and media conglomerates? Why did Jeff Bezos "get into journalism" via Washington Post? There is your answer.
by andrepd 5y ago
Why do rich people buy newspapers and media conglomerates? Why did Jeff Bezos "get into journalism" via Washington Post? There is your answer.
- MuffinFlavored 5y agoWashington Post can control what is posted through journalists, etc. (digital or not) Twitter is like... an aggregator of a bunch of people tweeting. The people tweeting aren't being paid by Twitter to tweet (like journalists are for Washington Post, even if it's like $75 for an opinion piece/basically blogspam) I feel like that's a pretty big difference?
- jkukul 5y agoTwitter can control what who can post and who cannot (remember Donald J Trump being banned?). Twitter can control what is being read by deciding what is promoted by their algorithms and what gets buried down. These are just few examples. We can't pretend that Twitter is a fully decentralised service and that there's no one pulling the strings.