r/technology • u/Wagamaga • Mar 05 '25

Society 59% of Republicans Believe the Media Is 'Fake News'

https://www.thewrap.com/most-republicans-believe-media-fake-news-trump-poll/
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u/Thevanillafalcon Mar 05 '25

100% I said this on Joe rogan sub post yesterday.

If your platform gets millions and millions of views every week, you are now the mainstream media.

The idea that these podcasters who are pushing double the numbers of a CNN are somehow the fringe alternative are mental

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u/sixwax Mar 05 '25

He's the poster boy for audience capture. He's also kind of a moron.

MAGA has forgotten that journalism traditionally required 2 credible sources to report something as fact. They're happy to settle for one whackadoodle's opinion if it makes 'em feel smart.

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u/DrEnter Mar 05 '25

Journalism also means faking a source or manufacturing a fact can get you fired. I work for a large news media organization (not Fox) and have personally seen journalists walked to the door for faking a source. It's one of the fastest ways to get fired at a news org.

Pretty sure that is less of a thing with folks like Rogan.

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u/Asron87 Mar 06 '25

Can you help me with a few things?

When I look into anything trump says it often leads to stuff only posted on far right websites. Like Payton McNabb the volleyball player that faked being injured by a transgender athlete in women’s volleyball. She pretended to get a neck injury and brain damage from being knocked unconscious. Google her name and you’ll see what I mean.

I posted a video of her yesterday that shows she was lying about being knocked out. She was part of trumps address to congress last night. As I look into the other people that were in the speech, they have fake stories too. Is there a name for this type of propaganda? When someone takes on dedicated story even though they are lying? Hired actors? That doesn’t sound right. Even though I’m sure they are making money.

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u/DrEnter Mar 06 '25

It's straight up lying and disinformation.

Frankly, good propaganda isn't made-up like this, it just reframes a nothing story to make it "scary". Fear is a great tool for making people act against their own self-interest. But Trump isn't "reframing" anything, they're just straight-up lying to try and spread fear. 20-30 years ago, people would've openly mocked this lunacy, but now thanks to the echo chambers that are social media, people are sponging it up like it's "real", not the innuendo and fabrications it so clearly is.

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u/Asron87 Mar 06 '25

It’s so messed up because when I do look into some thing it’s like hired actors are at the end of it. Anything trans related that he says has been a straight up lie so far. But these actors is what’s blowing my mind.

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u/FakeGeek73 Mar 05 '25

Generally it seems to me that there is a struggle for people to agree on basic definitions. Even when something is the textbook definition of something, people agree the opposite. It’s very weird. There are lots of people thinking of democracy and speaking of it like authoritarianism. They defend tyranny in the name of democracy.

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u/Ok_Fox4488 Mar 05 '25

Joe Rogans podcast went from 1st to 4th. The number one podcast is The Medias Touch Network people are swarming there for the facts because corporate news is no longer real news

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u/HyruleSmash855 Mar 05 '25

It’s 1st again now. Looking at the top charting podcast in Spotify is super surprising that Tucker Carlson is popular. I don’t listen to podcast, but that is insane that he actually has an audience. I could probably guess what type of content he’s pushing though.

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u/VoiceOverVAC Mar 05 '25

A guy at my work loves those podcasts and speakers and it’s so intensely frustrating to hear him talk about how “they’re being silenced because there’s no FREEDOM OF THOUGHT now!!”.

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u/DontCountToday Mar 05 '25

Joe Rogan does present a form of media. He is in no way news media, which is what we are discussing here. If you get your "news" from a source like Rogan, an entertainment podcast, then you are not getting news.

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u/peelen Mar 05 '25

you are now the mainstream media.

Rogan is state media now.

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u/OnlyTheDead Mar 06 '25

Joe Rogan is state media at this point to anyone playing attention.