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Arthur Charpentier โ ๐จ๐ฆ ๐ฏ๐ตI love this kind of graph, we should do it for a lot of topics, to better understand media distortions (and not only in the US)
Bob Tregilus@freakonometrics Welp, that confirms the maxim every community organizer knows: "If it bleeds, it leads."
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AkshayBudgetary spending: In Europe, people believe 20% of GDP is spent on foreign aid, 20% is EU spending, and 20% is asylum seekers, which would make >150% of the tax take. (instead of 3-4% of GDP or whatever)
People believing Muslims are 30-40% of the population instead of 5%
80% of TV political debates being about migration vs 80% of problems being caused by the ultra-rich controlling the media and thus politics
Satin Thรฉrรจse@freakonometrics woa genius graphic! Lets do the same for France !
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manchicken@freakonometrics Yeah, in a profit-driven media ecosystem you're bound to see media companies adhering to what grabs attention over what's true and boring each and every time.
Bob@freakonometrics Its true, but its also true that the point of news is to report on unusual things. The more rare it is, the more likely it's going to be reported on. No one reports on am average person's birthday, unless theyre like 110 years old
gusseting@freakonometrics Favourite media distortion? That's from Our World In Data, who are the far right funded experts.
"How billionaire elites help fund an Oxford statistics lab that makes the destruction of Earth look just great."
https://www.counterpunch.org/2024/07/26/the-unbearable-anthropocentrism-of-our-world-in-data/
