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243 points Jimmc414 | 3 comments | 13 Nov 24 20:58 UTC | HN request time: 0.465s | source
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seydor ◴[13 Nov 24 21:53 UTC] No.42130473[source]▶
Yann Lecun is also telling everyone on Twitter very loudly that he won't be posting on Twitter.

The Guardian in another article explains that they are annoyed because Musk used twitter to promote his preferred candidate.

The Guardian itself used their own platform to publicly endorse Harris.

This deja-vu of childish antics is just comical in 2024

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jmull ◴[13 Nov 24 22:06 UTC] No.42130616[source]▶
Is it "childish antics" for the Guardian to have their own political viewpoint?

Musk can have a preferred candidate and political stance. And he can run Twitter accordingly.

The Guardian can have a preferred candidate and political stance. And they can choose the platforms they use accordingly.

It all seems perfectly reasonable to me.

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n0id34 ◴[13 Nov 24 22:26 UTC] No.42130849[source]▶
It's ridiculous for any media to have a political bias, defeats the entire purpose of the media if it's already skewed when it's consumed.
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1. SauciestGNU ◴[13 Nov 24 22:29 UTC] No.42130889[source]▶
Journalism should have a bias for the truth. But one political camp has spent decades working the refs, calling truth-telling "bias", and even building parallel media ecosystems that project a message completely detached from factual reality. I don't know how we come back from this.
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2. booleandilemma ◴[13 Nov 24 22:33 UTC] No.42130939[source]▶
Your comment is so vague I can't tell which political camp you're talking about. I suspect you'll get upvotes from all sides :)
3. ToucanLoucan ◴[13 Nov 24 22:37 UTC] No.42130966[source]▶
It will never not be wild to me that vast swathes of the American public consume Fox News as news when Fox itself asserted it was merely "entertainment" in court documents/arguments and all but called their own audience idiots for believing what they say, and they somehow are still operating.

That is commitment to maintaining your echo chamber.