Yet people on the right scream the loudest about being silenced… I’m begging people to think about why we have so many massive right-wing accounts and what it tells you about the money behind, institutional support for and algorithmic appeasement of those views. - ThreadSky

rachelgilmore.bsky.social • 4 days ago

Yet people on the right scream the loudest about being silenced…

I’m begging people to think about why we have so many massive right-wing accounts and what it tells you about the money behind, institutional support for and algorithmic appeasement of those views.

Reposted from Angelo Carusone

1. What you see here is clearest illustration why things are so messed up and why it cannot get any better until this asymmetry is addressed.

Put simply: the right-wing has narrative dominance.

My org @mmfa.bsky.social did this study and has been sounding this alarm for years. Some thoughts...

Comments

tomwhittaker.bsky.social•4 days ago

Rachel, a gem, as always.
Your voice should have a much larger audience because you focus is what Canadians need to know.

sander001.bsky.social•3 days ago

"why doesn't the left have a Joe Rogan?"

Joe Rogan actually endorsed Bernie Sanders years ago but that angered the Dem establishment.

pwesty.bsky.social•4 days ago

Look, the Fraser institute and heritage foundation are just sticking up for that tiny minority of oil billionaires. Who else will be their voice??……

jack50923.bsky.social•4 days ago

It's because they scream about it. The left is being silenced and we say nothing. The fact we say nothing is there problem. We're in a war for our democracy, but only the right is fighting it.

36reinbacher.bsky.social•3 days ago

Because the left has had a self claimed patent on what is right and wrong and will tell anyone who is and who isn’t interested how righteous they are.

I am definitely left but it gets so tiresome and frankly boring with the endless judging and moral outrage.

Humans are not perfect. Get over it

crumbledcolumns.bsky.social•3 days ago

Yeah it would suck for someone to paint with a broad brush and just assume that everyone under a certain label feels the same way

dalriad60.bsky.social•4 days ago

Hate speech is not free speech, America.

markoleksiw.bsky.social•4 days ago

They all prey upon young men. They tell them what they want to hear...it is okay to be racist and sexist.

mayamivice.bsky.social•4 days ago

What’s wild is that like half the blue bubbles are arguably also right wing channels because they are now posturing themselves alongside Republicans.

The Young Turks and H3 for example

langmanj.bsky.social•4 days ago

Was about to say... The Young Turks??? That bubble needs to be red.

ecruzalegui.bsky.social•2 days ago

The H3 shows have never been right-wing and continue to regularly make fun of the people in red bubbles. Seems a bit much to put them in the same pile.

wjm1964.bsky.social•4 days ago

Russia.

ald1977.bsky.social•4 days ago

Absolutely awful

mirthdal.bsky.social•4 days ago

Tenet Media- how Russia paid RW "influencers" to spread propaganda, laundering the $$ through Canada. How RW controls the narrative.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2024_Tenet_Media_investigation

raeroer.bsky.social•4 days ago

its money & its easy to sell anger than hope.
a quote from a cheesy tv show Once Upon A Time has always stuck with me.
The episode has Snow White meeting Peter Pan & discussing the Lost Boys. Pan says 'it's way easier to get people against something than to support something'
Hate unites

jawa123.bsky.social•4 days ago

My God that is scary.

amidaniele.bsky.social•2 days ago

We don’t have the funding here. We need laws to control them.

marioleg25.bsky.social•4 days ago

Yes Right wing is dominated in Canada as well as in USA and in the world .

mojobartlett.bsky.social•4 days ago

Major Canadian newspapers reflect the same

cadguy50.bsky.social•4 days ago

Dosen't the Russian Bots. And don't forget Musk modifying the algorithim of X.

julian-can.bsky.social•3 days ago

Roger Ayles Memo to Nixon on why he needed to create Fox news. "People are lazy, with television you just sit — watch — listen. The thinking is done for you." Nixon embraced the idea, his supporters needed "our own news" from a network that would lead "a brutal, vicious attack on the opposition."

overseasbadactor.bsky.social•3 days ago

The metrics for the research are poor from the outset.

jimmythethird.bsky.social•4 days ago

This (narrative dominance) is what worries me about the Canadian election the most.

thesaanichdaily.bsky.social•4 days ago

It's pretty grim when even 90% of those are "centrist" dweebs and Trevor Noah is the biggest account.

alectoerinys.bsky.social•3 days ago

Pretty sure the Majority Report is the only truly leftist channel on there.

ryanhumphrey.bsky.social•4 days ago

The right wing grift is obvious and established, but part of the “obvious” bit is how there’s a clear money pipeline. Attract an audience and then start shilling grift products and it becomes a self-fueling money engine

ryanhumphrey.bsky.social•4 days ago

We obviously don’t need/want a progressive grift pipeline, but until there’s clear and reliable paths to paying your bills with progressive messaging we’re never going to be able to match the level of cultural penetration

sillygo0se.bsky.social•4 days ago

And can't say that Young Turks and H3 Media are the best representatives of the left either ...

kenfrequed.bsky.social•2 days ago

The right has corporate and rich people that can both prop up these channels creators with money AND also create fake views and follows to try to futz with YOUTUBE's defective algorithm.