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Not sure what country you're in, but here in the UK, a non-zero amount of our news coverage is built on the twitter house of cards. And if you're in the US, it
by oneeyedpigeon 4y ago
Not sure what country you're in, but here in the UK, a non-zero amount of our news coverage is built on the twitter house of cards. And if you're in the US, it seems a significant part of your politics is affected by twitter too.
- vkou 4y agoThat's because it's very cheap for an acolyte of twosidist 'journalism' to take 10 minutes to scroll through Twitter, find an inflammatory hot take by @weedfeast68, and spend a few minutes talking about how 'Twitter is saying <ridicilous thing>' It's the digital equivalent of picking a rando off the street to ask him for his opinion about the optimal deployment of pacific aircraft carrier groups, and of homelessness trends downtown, but it doesn't even require the journalist to get out of his chair.