1d ago

why though

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Does the right use independent media?
Or do their billionaire pals that have exploited humanity for decades just own the mainstream media... so they don't have to bother with independent media: cause they have dozens of not hundreds of full time staff figuring out how to increase viewership.
It's not really a question.
It's just how it is
- Yes, and it's very popular, at least with younger people. Asmongold, Rogan, Shapiro, Fresh and Fit, Charlie Kirk, etc. They're usually further right than mainstream too. The algorithms boost them, they typically sell snake oil/crypto, and are suspiciously well-funded (last year, many were found to be taking Russian money).
  
  The Koch foundation made a long-term investment in making it seem like grass roots movements were pushing society to the right. They kept it up for over twenty years, and that persistence has paid off for them in ways that will likely take a similar amount of time to reverse https://time.com/secret-origins-of-the-tea-party/
  The difference in the size of left- and right-leaning media isn't in news or comedy sites. The right-leaning news and comedy media is only modestly more watched than left-leaning media. Where the right really dominates is sliding politics into every single popular subject - topics like sports, games, wellness, and religion have tons of audience for right-leaning shows and basically no audience for left-leaning ones. https://www.mediamatters.org/google/right-dominates-online-media-ecosystem-seeping-sports-comedy-and-other-supposedly
- I think I agree?
  Like, the right sucked at independent media. They couldn't hang whatsoever on Twitter or Reddit. They need to use billionaires to capture and co-opt these platforms to compete.
  And like all the "conservative" social media? Its all 100% AstroTurf (rumble, etc.)
  
  They didn't capture TikTok like that, yet at least in Europe they dominate that platform.
  
  I wonder why the TikTok owners would push the divisive conservative rage bait to the top of their feeds in Europe.
  The goals of China, much like Russia, are to sew divisions amongst their strongest rivals on the world stage. So, the conservative garbage gets a big boost on the platforms algorithms.

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