It is clear that politicians on both sides of the proverbial aisle are employing wedge issues to galvanize their supporters. Wade ads are currently targeting almost exclusively women. This summer, South Dakota Republican Senator John Thune wrote to donors that he wanted money to help “flip the Senate” while millions of Roe v. I found postcards on my mom’s kitchen table that accused a fellow Republican House of Representative candidate of voting with the hated Democratic House leader Nancy Pelosi, of voting to confiscate guns, and of backing RINO (Republican In Name Only) Congresswoman Liz Cheney and “her claim that the election fraud was nothing more than a ‘big lie.’” Already in the primaries, Republicans were savaging each other with slander.
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Since at the moment, Republicans are slated to take back both the House and the Senate, we are subjected to a tidal wave of political advertising, online hate speech and digital trickery that is now coming full blast at voters.
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Thus, the hyper-capitalist pursuit of making money at all costs, results in the most effective barrier to broad information dissemination the world has ever conceived. In one rewarding conversation I had with a fellow academic in South Dakota, (who knows more about the attention economy than I), it was pointed out that the modern tools of data science, such as predictive analytics and data harvesting, not only facilitate echo-chamber-confirmation-bias material, but further provide the means to make sure an audience does not receive any contradictory information that might lead it to other platforms.
When the absence of the fairness doctrine is coupled with our modern attention economy the mix is potent. Unfortunately, the cashing-in by talk radio and cable news produces echo chambers filled with politicized content that in turn affects electoral outcomes and attitudes towards political figures and even feelings towards fellow Americans. Today, America is reaping the results of the Federal Communications Commissions’ (FCC) 1987 ruling to eliminate the fairness doctrine, a policy that required broadcasters of opinionated programming on controversial issues to offer an array of viewpoints rather than one, often-slanted, interpretation.
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Newsmax offered to send my mom a free “Day of Outrage, January 6: The Real Story” DVD, which apparently shows “the shocking truth” and “exposes the Left’s Twisted Agenda,” if she would buy their magazine subscription for $99. For example, Telegram, the messaging service that has become the go-to platform for conspiracy theorists and disinformation merchants, is now offering a paid service in an effort to make money from its more than 700 million users. Social media platforms, cable news and now podcasts want to sell advertising, the more eyes and ears that tune in the greater the revenue. We all heard the phrase, “if it bleeds, it leads.” Much of what is presented as news today is an updated version of this tactic-to get audiences to pay attention and to provoke in ways that ensure future interest. Lees de Nederlandse vertaling van dit artikel hier Outrage pays
Why are so many people currently spouting so many conspiracy theories on both sides of the Atlantic? The disconnect between these conspiracies and my own experience of watching a patriotic, smalltown 4 th of July parade, with a good deal of candy thrown my way, is stark. or that the CIA assisted freedom struggles in Georgia, Ukraine and Belarus, many of the explanations I heard centered on a powerful but corrupt U.S. Whether it is believing that the FBI is actually behind many of the recent mass murders in the U.S. This spring and early summer several people in the Netherlands and the United States relayed to me dire apocalyptic warnings or offered complex schemes about world events.
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