Fox News isn’t rallying people against Palestine.
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stembolts@programming.dev 5 months agoThey outlawed Fox News?
Don’t pretend this is about disinformation.
This is about the seizure of media outlets that don’t parrot pro-capitalist propaganda.
But it’s too late, the majority of each generation millennial and later is anti-capitalist. The critique media will simply change form.
UNIX84@beehaw.org 5 months ago
flora_explora@beehaw.org 5 months ago
But tiktok the company is? And there are certainly also people on Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, Reddit and even Lemmy rallying to support Palestine. And that’s what you tried to avoid with your “argument” in the first place, that many us companies are far worse in spreading misinformation. How does your one very specific point prove anything? And why focus on this one at all? Meanwhile fox news especially has been rallying against all kinds of minorities since forever in the US. You have very weak arguments here, maybe you just want to have tiktok banned? But then just say so outright.
Dark_Arc@social.packetloss.gg 5 months ago
But tiktok the company is?
Yes, among other things they’re also explicitly suppressing pro-Isreal content lemmy.world/post/14643617
The_Sasswagon@beehaw.org 5 months ago
If I’m reading that right, that could also say that Instagram is suppressing anti-israel content? It’s just saying that in comparison to Instagram tiktok is showing more x, y, z. But Instagram is absolutely not a neutral point to measure from.
For starters there’s different demographics on each one, but I’m sure you could adjust for that, maybe the study did. But I don’t think you can adjust for the impact the US government has on Meta. I don’t believe for an instant that some US agency isn’t manipulating algorithms or requiring certain tweaks to steer discourse just like they did with US news outlets.
BennyHill@lemmy.ml 5 months ago
No misinformation is needed for that.
Scrof@sopuli.xyz 5 months ago
No, only boomers watch Fox News, young people watch TikTok making it a way more potent weapon.
stembolts@programming.dev 5 months ago
And the weapon is ideas? If a society has to shield itself from ideas to prevent revolt, then perhaps that society has bigger problems. Patching the hole as a united bipartisan front, when the ONLY things that receives united bipartisan support is corporate interests, kinda gives their hand away. They’re doing this as a desperation move to prevent societal erosion and more importantly, loss of power in media. I think it’s too late.
Seems like an upheaval, electorally or otherwise, is at hand and this is a desperation move. I don’t expect the patching to prevent the rain, but who knows.
My interpretation, open to being wrong.