Kim Crawley (she/her) 😷🍉4d ago

This video from 4:28 to about 8:30 explains a major reason why Ground News is such bullshit.

In a nutshell, IMHO:

- MSNBC and CNN are "left"?! 😂🤣

- Promotes "centrist" fallacy. (Nazis want them all killed, Communists want no one killed, rationality is kill 50%!) 🧵

https://youtu.be/bfHx4CfKFqQ?si=p7rcXuerInK3tfKP&t=4m28s

- So you're outsourcing your "critical thinking" to an app, eh? You're no better than a Gen AI bro. In fact, Ground News crams in those "AI summaries" too.

- One of many examples of the harm of Ground News, legitimizing transphobia while trans people are being genocided now... 🧵

See here. Ground News legitimizes transphobia in its quest for "rational" "centrism"... (Continued 🧵)

Show threadKim Crawley (she/her) 😷🍉

Your Overton Window is super fucked up if corporate capitalist genocide minimizing CNN and MSNBC are "left" to you.

https://www.youthkiawaaz.com/2022/08/how-the-overton-window-is-manipulated-under-capitalism/

https://www.reddit.com/r/LateStageCapitalism/comments/keb4ex/the_overton_window_continues_to_shift_to_the_right/

Here's how to really think critically about the media... 🧵

Capitalism In Present Day Society | Youth Ki Awaaz

The Overton Window refers to a range of policies that are considered to be acceptable for a society.

Youth Ki Awaaz
May 28 at 1:18pmWeb
Show threadKim Crawley (she/her) 😷🍉4d ago

FOLLOW THE MONEY.

Take it from someone who spent years writing tech "news" for tech "companies."

Think of which entity is profiting from making you think about a matter a certain way.

There is no money in reporting news from an actually left, anticapitalist perspective. Anticapitalist. Think...

about that.

100% of all mainstream media in North America and Europe is rightwing at bare minimum.

Actual left news comes from sources like "The Marxist Worker," produced by people who have to have day jobs because there's no money in anticapitalism...

My life and my mind are so much better off in how I only hear about what the mainstream media (all far right) are saying as discussed through my comrades' blogs, podcasts, and social media.

And of course, I use absolutely zero Gen AI. Gen AI kills brains.

FIN

https://gizmodo.com/microsoft-study-finds-relying-on-ai-kills-your-critical-thinking-skills-2000561788

Microsoft Study Finds Relying on AI Kills Your Critical Thinking Skills

Researchers from Microsoft and Carnegie Mellon University warn that the more you use AI, the more your cognitive abilities deteriorate.

Gizmodo