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I get what you are saying... but let's consider for a fact that if the media had run the Biden Laptop story AS IF it was the Trump Laptop story - the election f
by SV_BubbleTime 4y ago
I get what you are saying... but let's consider for a fact that if the media had run the Biden Laptop story AS IF it was the Trump Laptop story - the election for leader of the free world would have gone the other way.
You can be happy or sad about the ends - but should be terrified of the means.
It wasn't an award show snub, or a gender bathroom debate, it was the entire direction of the USA with the largest military on Earth.
- tarakat 4y agoBut that's just it - the silent re-ranking of stories, algorithmic or editorial, can also flip elections. Not just elections, it can entirely change the direction a culture is headed. And it causes no backlash - you wouldn't even know it was happening, unless you laboriously compared statistics with how much exposure stories (not just news stories, films and books shape our perception of the world just as much) get, for the few sufficiently objective categories where a meaningful comparison can be made.
- SV_BubbleTime 4y agoDon’t take it that I don’t agree, just that it doesn’t need to be subtle. We already had the FBI and bureaucracy cover up a scandal because they were invested in someone else winning the presidential election. Let’s worry about the thing that already happened instead of the hypothetical.