Thanks for this, Rachel. r/Canada has been overrun by far-right nonsense for some time now. Without intervention by the owners of Reddit, it’s a lost cause.
I tried posting my Substack stories to a couple of subreddits and they were also removed by moderators apparently for rules against "self-promotion." They were both stories about current events. They do allow posting news stories from mainstream media, so why discriminate against independent content producers? It doesn't make sense.
Rachel! This is such important work that you are doing! This is truly meaningful. I have a background in public education with a focus on democracy and social justice. We need to expose the bizarre conspiracy and disinformation from the far-right. I do see these nefarious elements for the threats that they are: These far-right movements are an attack on pluralism. It is NOT the direction we want as they are NOT healthy and NOT a path for a healthy democracy (they are designed to upset democracy).
thanks this is important to understanding what we are allowed to learn and how we are allowed to learn it.
"The most trusted man in America" reflected an actual sentiment that was widely held about Walter Cronkite, and I don't think anyone inferred from that an untrustworthiness of Chet Huntley, David Brinkley, or Gwen Ifill or Judy Woodruff, or any MSM from my youth. I think we trusted the reporter and what was being reported because it was fact being reported, not massaged into an outrage piece to influence your choice of dishsoap.
We need to stay on this, it's critical in the way NPR's "On The Media" is to parsing what we are being fed, and how not to choke on it. Super critical given that we have lost faith in MSM and certain opportunists with Goebbels-like qualities on the unregulated web are rushing to fill the void left.
Thanks for this, Rachel. r/Canada has been overrun by far-right nonsense for some time now. Without intervention by the owners of Reddit, it’s a lost cause.
I tried posting my Substack stories to a couple of subreddits and they were also removed by moderators apparently for rules against "self-promotion." They were both stories about current events. They do allow posting news stories from mainstream media, so why discriminate against independent content producers? It doesn't make sense.
Rachel! This is such important work that you are doing! This is truly meaningful. I have a background in public education with a focus on democracy and social justice. We need to expose the bizarre conspiracy and disinformation from the far-right. I do see these nefarious elements for the threats that they are: These far-right movements are an attack on pluralism. It is NOT the direction we want as they are NOT healthy and NOT a path for a healthy democracy (they are designed to upset democracy).
thanks this is important to understanding what we are allowed to learn and how we are allowed to learn it.
"The most trusted man in America" reflected an actual sentiment that was widely held about Walter Cronkite, and I don't think anyone inferred from that an untrustworthiness of Chet Huntley, David Brinkley, or Gwen Ifill or Judy Woodruff, or any MSM from my youth. I think we trusted the reporter and what was being reported because it was fact being reported, not massaged into an outrage piece to influence your choice of dishsoap.
We need to stay on this, it's critical in the way NPR's "On The Media" is to parsing what we are being fed, and how not to choke on it. Super critical given that we have lost faith in MSM and certain opportunists with Goebbels-like qualities on the unregulated web are rushing to fill the void left.