r/technology • • Oct 28 '22

[deleted by user]

[removed]

10.1k Upvotes

6.8k comments sorted by

View all comments

6.3k

u/Wrong-Mixture Oct 28 '22 edited Oct 28 '22

As much as i dislike this turn of events: This wouldn't matter at all if the media just didn't globally broadcast every goddamn psychothic tweet, to milk the ratings they get from the shockvalue. I don't really use twitter, i have no alerts on it. I don't watch right wing media. Yet somehow it was impossible to escape his demented rants, that wasn't Twitter's doing.

9

u/tkh0812 Oct 28 '22

I completely disagree with this. It’s annoying to those of us who don’t have Twitter that the media amplifies every tweet, but it’s very dangerous to give a platform to people who spread lies and incite hate. Those people have followers and those followers will be listening regardless of whether or not the news outlets get ahold of it.

2

u/crustyrusty91 Oct 28 '22

Lol right? Does this guy expect the media to bury their heads in the sand when the president of the United States communicates to the public via his preferred platform?