#right-wing media

[rejectingrepublicans]

[contemplatingoutlander]

A Letter to Rupert Murdoch Upon His Retirement

[Note. Read past the first line--which is meant as sarcasm.]

Dear Mr. Murdoch: I wanted to write to you to thank you for the impact you and yours have had on my life. I once lived peacefully in a neighborhood of people from varied backgrounds. Back then, I never knew nor cared what people’s political affiliations were. In fact, even when dating, asking someone to label themselves D or R would have seemed nonsensical. Thanks to you, half of that neighborhood no longer speaks to the other half. Prior to 2016, I used to attend a family reunion picnic in Pennsylvania, never caring if some of the people were particularly religious. Well, I would like to thank you for your hand in radicalizing and reinforcing perplexing beliefs in about half of the reunion participants. Now the reunions are barely attended and the family has divided into a feud. I want to thank you for the cousins and friends who defriended me, online and in person, when they fell victim to the dark rhetoric you peddle. Convinced now that their lives are under threats from trans criminals and vicious migrants, they are completely unaware of how they’re economic interested are being robbed by a different source. Thank you so much for your enduring spirit of divisiveness. I hope the money you enjoyed while alive was worth all you stole from society. Mostly, may the hatred, division, suspicious, distrust, judgement and malignancy you leashed on us be returned to you a thousand fold….and may your nursing care be delivered with the same love for humanity you left behind. --GWE, NY, commenting on a NY Times article: Rupert Murdoch to Retire From Fox and News Corporation Boards

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[alwaysbewoke]

You know you fucked up when you got a slimeball like this talking like this about you...

[lenbryant]

Mainstream media fails us again with their tepid failure to communicate the important points.

[republicansaretheproblem]

[rejectingrepublicans]

[allthecanadianpolitics]

If Pierre Poilievre’s Conservatives form government after the next federal election, Poilievre will defund the CBC and expand government funding arrangements to include right-wing alternative media outlets. Speaking to right-wing online media personality Candice Malcolm with the website “Juno News” last week, Poilievre indicated he would, in his words, “depoliticize news media finance.” Asked by Malcolm to clarify if he would “get rid of that $600 million newspaper fund that Trudeau gave to newspapers,” Poilievre confirmed he will make unspecified cuts to news industry subsidies but is also interested in expanding which media organizations can access those funds.

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[gwydionmisha]

Don't threaten me with a good time, Republicans.

[cloud-ya]

Sega managed to give Shadow wings AU before I could

[skull-pun]

What are all these people gonna do when Trump kicks the bucket? Like, dude's almost 80, he's probably gonna die before facing any consequences, but as for the rest of them? Well, many will still be alive and will be dealing with the fallout along with the rest of the world.

Like, they're gonna have to explain to future generations why they decided to dismantle democracy and take away the human rights of millions of people both abroad and at home.

I can see the excuses now:

"Well we were just doing what we were told."

"We didn't know know any better."

"I was scared that if I said no then something bad would happen to me."

Something like this? And do you know who they sound like?

[silvermoon424]

It is NOOOOOOT fun coming to terms with the fact that your parents- who raised you to be compassionate and empathetic, have a strong sense of justice, and defend those who need help- are just straight-up Nazi sympathizers at this point.

They were making so much progress a while ago with becoming more open-minded and skeptical of the MAGA cult, but they started watching Fox News again before the 2024 election and it's unreal how much their sense of morality has declined since then.

I cannot fucking wait until Rupert Murdoch drops dead and his grave becomes the next gender-neutral public restroom. I hope hell is real just so he can fucking rot there. Along with Laura Ingraham, Jesse Watters, and all their godforsaken ilk.

[the-nomadicone]

[rednblacksalamander]

This would make a great six-hour YouTube video.

[phereinnike]

I know this is the performative activism website but it’s actually horrible to see a bunch of north americans clapping for a murderous dictator just because he SAYS he is leftist. Dictators don’t deal in left or right. Both his hands are covered in blood.

Let’s listen to the people of Venezuela, MILLIONS who had to go into exile, millions who saw their families die of hunger or lack of medical resources when they live in one of the richest countries in the world in natural resources, about how life under a dictatorial regime actually is and stop projecting our local political realities over the enormous suffering of people who are asking for your help.

[contemplatingoutlander]

Yoel Roth, PhD used to be in charge of the trust and safety team at Twitter. This is a must-read article to better understand how the far right is attacking anyone who wants to guard against disinformation being shared on social media. Consequently, the link above is a gift 🎁 link, so anyone can read the entire article, even if they do not subscribe to the NY Times.

Below are some excerpts:

When I worked at Twitter, I led the team that placed a fact-checking label on one of Donald Trump’s tweets for the first time. Following the violence of Jan. 6, I helped make the call to ban his account from Twitter altogether. Nothing prepared me for what would happen next. Backed by fans on social media, Mr. Trump publicly attacked me. Two years later, following his acquisition of Twitter and after I resigned my role as the company’s head of trust and safety, Elon Musk added fuel to the fire. I’ve lived with armed guards outside my home and have had to upend my family, go into hiding for months and repeatedly move. This isn’t a story I relish revisiting. But I’ve learned that what happened to me wasn’t an accident. It wasn’t just personal vindictiveness or “cancel culture.” It was a strategy — one that affects not just targeted individuals like me, but all of us, as it is rapidly changing what we see online. Private individuals — from academic researchers to employees of tech companies — are increasingly the targets of lawsuits, congressional hearings and vicious online attacks. These efforts, staged largely by the right, are having their desired effect: Universities are cutting back on efforts to quantify abusive and misleading information spreading online. Social media companies are shying away from making the kind of difficult decisions my team did when we intervened against Mr. Trump’s lies about the 2020 election. Platforms had finally begun taking these risks seriously only after the 2016 election. Now, faced with the prospect of disproportionate attacks on their employees, companies seem increasingly reluctant to make controversial decisions, letting misinformation and abuse fester in order to avoid provoking public retaliation.

I encourage you to use the gift link above and read the entire article. It is worth your time.