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I get irrationally angry when the news reports on what people tweeted. Sometimes they're literally anonymous, unsourced one-line opinions. I've seen articles t

• bpodgursky 4y ago
  Journalists love them because the diversity of tweets allows them to build whatever narrative they want, without even needing to make a phone call.
  • nicbou 4y ago
    I mentally avoid a bunch of American newspapers because every article I see from them could be about a dozen people on social media. The New York Times is especially guilty of this. A dozen people tweet that they're moving somewhere, and suddenly "X are moving in droves to Y". A dozen people stop doing something, and suddenly it's "the death of X". A dozen people do something dumb and suddenly it's "we need to stop X" or "we need to talk about X" like it's 30 percent of the population.