why do we not habitually highlight the discrepancy bw right-wing assholes who question climate science and vaccine safety?

so when julie sladden for example flies into canberra ask her about whether she relieved to have landed in one piece, she must be a bit skeptical about bernoullli's theorum and how the fuck do magnets work anyhow

does she understand how her iphone works? is it friendly relay spirits in the sky how the fuck does she get off throwing shade on vaccine science if she's not terrified of being at 30,000 feet

this is the job of journalism surely

#vaccine #sceptics #rightWingAssholes #publicPolicy #journalism #climateChange #science #ausPol

The Right’s War on Wikipedia is Just a Repackaging of its War on Journalism
"And the real problem isn’t that left-leaning media is untrustworthy—it’s that conservative media has never fully committed to journalism in the same way. Most of the sources MRC attacks as “leftist” are primarily focused on reporting, while many of the right-wing outlets it defends are commentary-driven. This has been a defining characteristic of conservative media for decades."

#media #wikipedia #journalism #RightWingAssholes

I used to watch the same strategy play out in comic book fandom back in the days when everything was still blogs and forums: someone behave badly, get a timeout or a ban or whatever, and then they'd go somewhere else (or try to work the moderators) and lie about why they'd been blocked, insisting it was because they liked such-and-such a character and the moderators were biased toward some other character. Even though the other people on the forum who liked the same character but weren't going around being jerks were still being allowed to post.

When it's just a few people arguing about which Flash is better, and some of them are being assholes, the stakes are a lot lower than when "news" organizations are pretending that they're being censored for simply being on one side of an ideological divide, when looking at the actual data shows that they're lying about that too, and it's really just that people are tired of them lying so damn much and/or putting people in actual, direct danger. (Again, not just which side of the left/right divide they're on.)

https://hachyderm.io/@molly0xfff/113997310469320272

#liars #rightwingassholes #comics #wikipedia #media

Here are some of the horrible things that you can now say on Instagram and Facebook
"Without these necessary hate speech and other policies, Meta is giving the green light for people to target LGBTQ people, women, immigrants, and other marginalized groups with violence, vitriol, and dehumanizing narratives. With these changes, Meta is continuing to normalize anti-LGBTQ hatred for profit — at the expense of its users and true freedom of expression."

#Facebook #Instagram #HateSpeech #RightWingAssholes