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thinkingemote ◴[] No.42130688[source]
The traditional news in their assessments on why the Democrats lost and Trump won seem to be focusing on platforms and sites. They think the content of a message and where the message appears is more important than the messaging or how a message is conveyed.

The guardian will no longer post to twitter but they will keep on harvesting news from it and about it.

On average every 3 days someone submits to HN an article against Elon Musk written by The Guardian. I imagine there are more articles written than are submitted. Musk and Twitter provide a huge amount of material for them.

Past year HN submissions (111): https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=pastYear&page=0&prefix=tru...

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1. ribadeo ◴[] No.42145293[source]
Social media largely feeds the petty culture war that substitutes for political dialog.

I would say it's a strong net negative.

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2. ribadeo ◴[] No.42145301[source]
Social media is not the PUBLIC, but billionaires busy brainwashing and fleecing the public.