• @takeda
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    12 hours ago

    The news similarly report from Twitter (frankly this is lousy journalism and I would stay away from any news that uses social media as their source, but that’s another topic) because Twitter has audience. If no real person uses it, it becomes irrelevant.

    Look at truth social, not one cares about it, with one exception - trump, but that’s because they look for his opinions and that’s where he posts them.

    Though to reiterate what I wrote above, we should stay away from any news site that calls themselves serious and do reporting what people write on social media. They aren’t bringing any value and infact they are taking the quality of journalism.

    • @TexasDrunk
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      148 minutes ago

      My only argument here is that I really think coordination between certain news organizations, even if you and I aren’t watching them (and I’m pretty sure neither of us are) and a big enough fake audience will keep it going for years to steer opinion with minimal human input.

      I could be wrong. I just have very little faith in folks right now and really believe that they’re both evil enough to do that and stupid enough to fall for it.