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Overton windows shift not just by adding weight on one side of the scale, but by taking it off at the other side, and blasting trash in the middle to confuse and disorientate. You can't easily protect yourself from platform owners doing that on purpose if its your only information source.
BTW this is why it was stupid for all those government / emergency services accounts to resume posting on Twitter. Absolutely unreliable in critical situations

So, Big Journalism has decided to adopt the Republicans' framing of their debt-ceiling extortion:

It's on Biden to solve the problem, because the Republicans are just one side of the issue and have an equally compelling argument to make, never mind that they are recklessly -- and deliberately -- on the verge of tanking the US and global economy.

Is there any hope for honest political journalism at major outlets?

Twitter is dying :)

The biases that caused the pundits to get the midterms so wrong are the same ones that lead them to enable Trump and his MAGA cult.

We talk about this and Elon's journey to far-right trolldom on #WeveGotIssues this week w/ Will Bunch and Linette Lopez.

https://weve-got-issues.simplecast.com/episodes/linette-lopez-will-bunch

Elon Musk's short journey from libertarian geek to far-right troll | We've Got Issues

Joshua Holland is joined by Business Insider's Linette Lopez to discuss Elon Musk's disastrous early stewardship of Twitter. And then we recap the midterms and talk to Philadelphia Inquirer columnist Will Bunch.

We've Got Issues