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> But even an unintended or informal campaign by two of the most important players in this battle—who reach a combined 90 million people on Twitter That's some
by jedberg 5y ago
> But even an unintended or informal campaign by two of the most important players in this battle—who reach a combined 90 million people on Twitter
That's some lazy journalism. They just added the two follower accounts and then rounded up by 1M. My guess is there is a big overlap between the two groups followers (and it should be noted that Musk has 82.4M of those ~90)
- bsimpson 5y agoThe entire thing is lazy. At this rate, we're gonna get a Weekend Update segment where they literally just read Twitter on air, and it will be indecipherable from what passes for "news" on most of these sites. "This week's biggest critique of Biden's plan came from @massiveanus47, who wrote…"
- gigaflop 5y agoThat's the direction most 'journalism' takes. Minimal effort, lots of filler to pad out space, the one thing you actually cared about buried in the second-to-last paragraph, but not completely answered. The biggest example of this I see is when I search for info about student loan cancellation or suspension. One particular website, which is known for paywalls and usually has some sort of "X free articles" popup, hosts what amounts to an editorial column by some guy, who always seems to have articles on the topic, but barely provides any kind of real information. Of course, there are link callouts to other articles on that site, written by the same guy, which look like they'll be informative. They're usually not. They still eat up one of those "X free articles" slots and try to bombard you with ads, however!