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The incentives to deceive are the same for content creators regardless the platform. News outlet or YouTube or tiktok. Joe Rogan vs CNN is a good example - tha

• soulofmischief 2y ago
  I agree. I don't get political news from any video source. I go to these platforms for commentary and discussion, but I establish knowledge and fact check out-of-band. And I'm still highly suspect of print media, I try to stick to individual journalists and editors who haven't gotten on my shitlist. Grassroots journalism is so good these days for many issues that it's getting easier to avoid conventional outlets altogether.
• libertine 2y ago
  > The incentives to deceive are the same for content creators regardless the platform. This is not true at all. Podcasters have no consequences for deceiving, and can easily recover from it by saying they're not journalists and that ends the subject there. Try that with a News Outlet, then it would be Joe Rogan saying they're liars and are compromised. There should be way more accountability for those platforms that have no code of ethics to abide by. Even the self-proclaimed "intellectual dark web" is extremely opinionated about a wide range of subjects way beyond their domain of expertise. I'm not saying all news outlets are pristine, but comparing journalism, as an institution, and putting it at the same level of accountability as podcasters is just wrong.