Edit: Some people pointed out that “mass looting” is more or less propaganda. I edited the title to be accurate.
Newsweek isn’t accurate, in general. I thought it was newsworthy that there was a riot after the game, but maybe I should not be feeding into a right-wing mythology about “lawless left-wing cities,” which this story pretty definitely is doing.
Looting at several stores on one street corner in a city the size of LA… headline says “mass looting.” Maybe I’m just used to a different level of looting after big protests in the past, but that doesn’t sound like mass looting to me.
Also looks like a “news” reporting outlet that likes to over-report on every crime that occurs in a large city.
I saw news week and I knew there was no reason to give this headline any credibility. Does “media bias checker bot” not do the right wing?
Also won’t be surprised to see other news outlets “pick up” on this because of the obvious built in virality that right wing reporting has inherent to it these days (see right wing posts doing 10;1 better than left since musk take over of Twitter)
This whole thing reeks, and I’m sad that I’ll be a conspiracy of very few when in the past this would have conspiracy idiots all over it.
I think you are both right. I edited the title away from Newsweek’s misleading title, and added a note adding some context.
I’m not sure I should have posted this, to be honest, for that exact reason.
Props to you for contributing content to the site! That’s more than I normally do. Thanks for adding recognition that this story might’ve been written with bias based on the source. You get my kudos for the day, hopefully you have a great end of October Day