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That's not the point, though. This is a serious cautionary tale about how factual journalism gets transformed into clickbait slop by third-party sites, at indus
by smcin 2y ago
That's not the point, though. This is a serious cautionary tale about how factual journalism gets transformed into clickbait slop by third-party sites, at industrial scale; consider this a dress rehearsal for the 11/2024 US election. Since the sites don't attribute their sources, you can't easily find out whether the claims are true (they aren't), or disprove them.
- smcin 2y agoThe UK national election will be July 4 2024 and the French two-round snap national election will be June 30 (first round) and July 7 (run-off). And the Trump sentencing is July 11. Expect a ton more of this garbage, some with image/meme/video/audio. At least we'll get an idea what to beware of for the upcoming US election.