2026-10-22 22:50 UTC
@mcc@mastodon.social there's a well documented feedback loop between right-wing social media and fox news. fox news picks emerging talking points from niche corners of social media, amplifies them, and then those are the ones that diffuse out to most right-wing media consumers. there's no equivalent for liberals or the left (or there wasn't ten years ago when the analysis I'm thinking of was done)
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@bob@feed.hella.cheap 2026-10-22 22:51
@mcc@mastodon.social maybe hasan piker and chapo serve the same function as fox news on the left now
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@mcc@mastodon.social 2026-10-22 23:08
@bob@feed.hella.cheap i think the more interesting thing on the right would be to draw a line all the way back to the "direct mail" networks in the 70s that helped build the Reagan revolution. If you look at early radio, direct mail, 90s talk radio, blogs, email forwards, social media, the far right is typically extremely good at adapting to new media and the left almost always plays catchup. TikTok is the only emerging form I can think of where the left was on an equal footing, and Biden/Ellison ended that.