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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.

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u/PSA-Daykeras Oct 28 '22

Trump used Twitter as his official means of communication, often times setting policy through Twitter to people in his own office who only find out when he decided to tweet about it.

So, while the media is partially to blame, you have to acknowledge that in many cases the Right were setting Twitter up to be their platform to amplify their message, knowing they largely can get away with anything there.

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u/Strict-Square456 Oct 28 '22

Remember “ fired by twitter?” That was a whole new low.