5d ago

The right dominates the online media ecosystem, seeping into sports, comedy, and other supposedly nonpolitical spaces

www.mediamatters.org The right dominates the online media ecosystem, seeping into sports, comedy, and other supposedly nonpolitical spaces

As Americans increasingly get their news from online shows and streamers, the influence of this media ecosystem becomes more prominent — and Media Matters has found that the most popular of this content is overwhelmingly right-leaning.In a new study, Media Matters assessed the audience size of popul...

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4d ago

The right dominates the online media ecosystem, seeping into sports, comedy, and other supposedly nonpolitical spaces

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Just go to comments on literally any YouTube… so ~~fowl~~ foul
- Most of those comments are bots. Moderation on YouTube is atrocious.
- I try to duck out of any comment thread before it gets nasty. So about 2 comments in.
  Edit: Potential pun thread ruined by reddwarf
  
  I feel like the comments are almost always discussions I can't add to or really stupid people. I want to believe that right-leaning people have made the Internet a place where conservative children have free reign of the comments section, but I don't really know any other way. I hope that one day, the sites we peruse won't be so ~~hornbill~~ horrible.
- So the comment sections are packed with birds then eh? 😃
  But yeah, the language and attitudes in youtube comments are indeed quite...foul.
  Had to do it.... 😁