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Also important to realize that social media is the main traffic acquisition point for most news websites. Imagine the economic pressures they are under if they

by Garvi 4y ago

Also important to realize that social media is the main traffic acquisition point for most news websites. Imagine the economic pressures they are under if they lose that resource even for a short time. No mainstream media outlet can afford that. Example: Imagine Ukraine blows up a bus filled with civilians (war is hell, right?). If your news organization reports on such an unpopular story, high chances are the untrained working-for-free facebook/reddit/social media moderator will flag you for propaganda and you will lose out on days of revenue. So you self censor on sensitive topics. Or perish. Social media moderators are the new gatekeepers of information and that terrifies me.

huimang 4y ago
Then they should perish. We don't need 24/7 news coverage.
trasz 4y ago
>Example: Imagine Ukraine blows up a bus filled with civilians (war is hell, right?). If your organization reports this without any kind of verification - given the common Russian trope of hitting civilians, including civilian buses, and then blaming Ukraine - then it's going to be correctly flagged as propaganda.
- chakhs 4y ago
  It's very clear the OP implicit assumption is that the report is verified to be true.
  - trasz 4y ago
    Do you know that since about two days ago Russian propaganda has been pushing exactly this scenario? See https://youtu.be/EoyNGHkjeyM https://youtu.be/EoyNGHkjeyM for details.