From a Fediverse-shaped viewpoint, it seems inconceivable that the Trump administration hasn't been run out of town yet. Of course, when seen from a different filter bubble, everything is just peachy. 😑
So I've been wondering: would there be interest in a Fediverse bot that posts Fox News headlines from their RSS feed? Just to provide a bit of context for what Red America gets fed in terms of propaganda. Opinions?
"would there be interest in a Fediverse bot that posts Fox News headlines from their RSS feed?"
Abso-fucking-lutely not
I really don't understand why some people want to assume that other people are less well-informed than they apparently are
#FOXNews is neither news nor the source of any content that *I* need to keep up with, speaking only for myself
FOX News is pure Murdoch-Ailes-Carlson trash dreck
If FOX News appears in any #Mastodon feed I see, out comes the #BanHammer
#Mute, #Block, #DomainBlock if needed
@FinchHaven
> "I really don't understand why some people want to assume that other people are less well-informed than they apparently are"
Not entirely sure what you mean? Of course, everyone can individually read the Fox website if they want, but that feeds into their traffic numbers - a bot that's polling the RSS feed maybe hourly might enable people to keep track of their propaganda without pushing their metrics.
Fuck the metrics
It's the --> content <-- of FOX News that's the problem
Clearly you have no understanding of what FOX News *is* or what it's been saying for close onto 30 years
Lacking any substantive context into US political history (as so many Europeans seem to not have) FOX News is a deliberately designed disinformation system that is way beyond your capacity to filter
Here
Need a backgrounder on US political history? Research all of the following:
Fairness Doctrine of the United States FCC (1949, abolished 1987, removed from Federal Register 2011)
Richard Viguery circa 1964-1976
William F Buckley jr
Young Americans for Freedom
Barry Goldwater
George Wallace
Jerry Falwell, Liberty University, 1971
Bellotti decision; Lewis Powell; money is actually "free speech" and corporations are "persons" 1978
Newt Gingrich circa 1974-1994
Frank Luntz
"Gingrich Revolution" 1994
Ronald Reagan circa 1960-1976
Lemuel Boulware (GE VP) 1954-1962 "the most influential American most people have never heard of"
California governor 1967-1975
1976 Republican presidential primaries
Roger Ailes circa 198x-199x
Reagan speechwriter circa 1984-
Lee Atwater
Rupert Murdoch News Corp 1996-
Hired as FOX News CEO 1996
Glenn Beck
Bill O'Reilly
Sean Hannity
Steve Bannon circa 2007 ...
"In 2007, he co-founded Breitbart News..."
Stephen Miller
This is #FOXNews parentage
@floe you can't pipe Fox News articles into the fediverset without piping their dog whistles too. And the fediverse has a large enough problem with racism and alt-right bigotry without artificially adding more propaganda.
Adding propaganda to a feed never makes it more balanced. Being aware of what conservative/fascist America gets fed as propaganda takes work, and you can't automate that work by mixing their words in with everything else.
You are not immune to propaganda. No one is immune.
Florian 'floe' Echtler
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