Tim Urban
@waitbutwhy · Mar 14, 2024
Newsaganda: When you report the news and push a political narrative at the same time
There used to be news, today it’s mostly newsaganda. If you’re aware it’s newsaganda, you read it w a grain of salt so it’s fine. You get in trouble when you read newsaganda and think it’s news.
~~datahazard~~@fentasyl· Mar 12, 2024When a corporate journo reports on a murderer, they mention his race in the first few sentences* of the article in:
- 68% of articles when the murderer is white.
- 12% of articles when black.
*in the first 2/10ths of words of the article
Elon Musk
@elonmusk
True
07:39 PM · March 14, 2024 · 42.8K views
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