• YappyMonotheist@lemmy.world
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    22 hours ago

    ingests ‘facts’ and narratives from seemingly different sources that just happen to be financially backed/owned by the same small group of people

    no logical filtering or processing takes place before regurgitating them

    “I’m a free thinker who does their own research!”

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        I am sorry but since when is German left leaning public broadcast the same as fox news?! I understand that sometimes some topics are generally over- or underreported, but putting these next to each other is nonsensical.

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          public broadcast

          Or, as we call it when it’s a non-white country: “State propaganda outlet”

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            Funny that you tie that to the skin color of the people. Most people including me make the distinction based on the following criteria:

            1. Does the government have direct control over the broadcast?
            2. Is the channel allowed to criticize the government?
            3. Is founding decided by the government?
            4. Are you at risk for not having the same stance on a topic than the government?

            In the case of Germany, all of these are not true. In the case of authoritarian regimes, they are. That is the key difference.

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        21 hours ago

        Jeff Bezos, one of the richest men in the world today, known for employing folks that need to pee in bottles to comply with Amazon’s inhuman procedures or face losing their jobs, buys The Washington Post

        “They will hold the truth and journalistic integrity in high regard, and I can certainly trust them to prioritise them before financial gain and anything that can be done to achieve it.”

        I SWIM IN THE SEA OF THE UNCONSCIOUS