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
Florian 'floe' Echtler
FinchHaven sfba