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What bothers me the most about the CA-Stole-Elections drumbeat is how devoid these kinds of articles are with evidence. They don't qualify which or how many vot
by RandomTisk 7y ago
What bothers me the most about the CA-Stole-Elections drumbeat is how devoid these kinds of articles are with evidence. They don't qualify which or how many votes were ultimately changed, but it's a well enough hypothesis so writer after writer keeps making bolder and broader claims about CA's influence.
Now how many votes are changed due to the media's overwhelming (90%+) negativity about Brexit and Trump? If CA swayed any votes at all, then our media is actively and aggressively engaging in much worse. To use an analogy, CA might have been a car bomb, but the ongoing bias in the media is a continuous artillery shelling of the public's perception of politics.
- dTal 7y agoNo, it's fundamentally different and worse, because there's no indication it's happening at all. There's no possibility to mount any kind of defense of rebuttal. To use your war analogy, it's as if someone suddenly invented invisibility cloaks. The fact that we don't have much evidence about what Cambridge Analytica did is the whole problem.
- mistermann 7y agoThat seemingly no one, even smart people, cares that there's little evidence is also a big problem. People want it to be true.
- pjc50 7y agoThe UK media were overwhelmingly in support of Brexit, including manufacturing all sorts of nonsense about the EU and uncritically repeating false claims by the government.