she would be declared too crazy to be president.

…fucking idiots?

racist, sexist, homophobic, xenophobic, Islamophobic, Flat Earthers, White Supremacists, and Christian Nationalists then I totally agree!

most from social media

...from major media outlets.

It's not like much that you find on social media is original journalism. It's mostly either commentary on/repetition of other news sources, or straight-up BS that's pulled out of someone's ass.

My head will explode from what follows. Too many time I hear a relative say that their doctor gave them certain advice, but they are going to ignore it, because they did their own research, which largely consists of watching some trending video on Tik Tok or YouTube.

I think many progressives are missing the elephant in the room when it comes to misinformation. For example, look on DU and you see many attacks on traditional media. But, these attacks actually miss what has changed in that most people today are not getting their news from traditional media outlets, but from unvetted sources like social media that recommend stories based on clicks, which of course encourages misleading clickbait. Worse, these algorithms serve to amplify hateful, false content, and can be gamed by bad actors such as Russia or right winger's like Trump.

For example, you rarely see the mysogynist Andrew Tate on TV or in the news, except when he is getting charged with a crime. Yet, he has a large following on social media as an influencer among young men selling a lifestyle that is built on the subjugation of women.

https://www.theguardian.com/media/2024/feb/06/social-media-algorithms-amplifying-misogynistic-content

With social media with its algorithms for recommending stories, you could end up getting a steady feed of articles talking about immigrants eating household pets without any whiff of the major media stories about Trump ducking debates or saying stuff that is crazy.

I think the OP has it backwards in blaming the media, when the truth is that the traditional media has significantly diminished in importance, as they rely heavily on social media platforms for their news and information, which do not have any mechanisms for validating the accuracy of posts or stories.

Go listen to Heather Cox Richardson and Simon Rosenberg.

It's not tied, nor is Trump leading, but it's damn close and a significant number of swing states are within the margin of error even for real pollsters.

There is real danger here, best to know it

but it only seems close because RW media wants it to seem close, it sells. It is not close. I'm not saying we have it in the bag, I'm not saying we don't need to all get out there and vote, but maybe don't look at the skewed polls and fall for the lies?

And even the most reputable polls say it's even closer than that in the swing states.

I might have changed my mind if you provided a link with polls showing that I was wrong.

Rightly so more and more experts in the field rely less and less on polls.

The other poster's answer was what I thought was impolite.

RCP and 538 feed these into the mix and skew the outcome. It was suppose to be close in 2020, and 22…it’s wasn’t. Dems have over performed in special elections up and down the ballot from county supervisors to senate races since ‘18.

Even single more reputable polls admit their outcomes are not as reliable as they once were. Just for starters, POC are significantly underrepresented.

Read what Heather Cox Richardson and Simon Rosenberg say, two experts that know of what they speak…it’s not close

It could be close, or one of the two might get 310 EV's. We will know in three weeks.

They'll never be finished milking that dead horse.

If/when he loses, the GQP will drop him like a hot potato, and he'll become a joke - more than he is now.

He'll become irrelevant to the Media; just an old man shouting at a cloud.

The paper is a sad joke, a whisper of what it once was. The coverage of the election, of Trump especially, is that it is just a normal, ho-hum presidential election.

Trump talks about eating dogs and cats, the paper says he spoke about immigration and his views. Trump talks about using the military against domestic adversaries, the paper ignores it. Nazi supporters participate in Trump events, ignored. Trump blathers, speaks word salad, insults allies and Americans alike and the paper reports he spoke to supporters to outline his policies for a second term.

Biden got the crap beat out of him every single day and Trump gets a pass.

It's infuriating.

How can that be? I thought the NYT was the only paper left in America.

I have Metro PCS, When I turn the phone on a "My Metro" screen is opened automatically. There is a mixture of featured news articles but a whole lot of it comes from Daily Caller.

Two common themes I see on DU are (1) people who are incredulous or in disbelief that the race is tied given how much Trump lies and (2) blame towards traditional media for failing to inform people of Trump's lies notwithstanding the fact that it easy to find stories on ABC, CNN, NBC, CBS, MSNBC, NY Times and the Washington Post identifying Trump's many lies.

This themes are misguided and are based on an outdated understanding of where people get their news and information, which is through social media where stories and videos are not recommended based on accuracy of reliability, but based on algorithms that value the propensity to click a story, which means that sensationalistic, emotional content is always likely to have an advantage.

This is not the first time this has happened. In the Philippines, the people elected the son of a brutal dictator, which was driven in part by a coordinated disinformation campaigns on social media platforms, especially through videos, that takes advantage of the fact that social media has no mechanism to vet for accuracy, so you can run campaigns based on misinformation and sensationalism.

This is why many health professionals, including the current Surgeon General, has recommended add warning labels to social media to advise users of the risks of disinformation and perhaps disclosure regarding how social media platforms recommend stories to users, particularly if the recommendations are not based on accuracy of reliability.

https://www.pewresearch.org/journalism/2024/06/12/how-americans-get-news-on-tiktok-x-facebook-and-instagram/#:~:text=A%202023%20Pew%20Research%20Center,%25)%20or%20X%20(12%25).

CNN, MSNBC, PBS, NPR and Google news.

I feel like I'm completely on top of Trump's insanity. It doesn't just come from DU.

have been flooding in to media since mid September. They're trying to set up another round of "stop the steal" and other prevarication topped with idiocy and violence.

It's also an attempt to appeal to the bandwagon fallacy, "all these other people can't be wrong," but I don't think that part is going to work, everybody is seeing TFG lose the plot with increasing rapidity. They know everybody on his bandwagon is wrong.

So I think this is just another run up to another "I wuz rubbed" only most of the people willing to do violence over it are still in jail, fresh out of jail, or waiting to be sentenced to jail, with or without big fines to pay, over the last go-round of it.

Yes, there will be some violence, but it will be sporadic and most likely alcohol f8ueled.

It looks like GOTV is happening. That's never good news for Republicans and other crooked fascists.

Emerson for example has Harris up by 1, it came out today. Not sure what TIPP leans, but it has Harris up by 2.

Perhaps they are true, and she really will win the Popular Vote by 1 or 2 points. We'll know very soon.

social media, this social media is strongly reflective of what they, and their friends and family believe. This "news" is reinforced by the "news" that they get in church, at the high school football game, from their co-workers, friends, and family. These people may watch Fox propaganda, but they probably aren't watching any real news. It is rare that someone can break out of this echo chamber which is comprised of almost everyone and everything in their lives, especially because the penalty for going against the flow is likely the loss of relationships and even their job.

The theme of outrage I see on DU regarding why the race is so close given how often Trump lies and the fact that he is largely avoiding interviews by regular journalists is based on an outdated understanding of where millions of Americans get their news and information, which is social media.

Unlike traditional journalism, there is no vetting of stories, particularly stories that are recommended, based on accuracy. To the contrary, stories are recommended based on propensity to click, which favors outrageous, emotionally laden, conspiracy filled stories. Thus, the more outrageous and detached a candidate is, particularly when they are supported by a cult like following, the more likely misinformation will spread as was the case in Philippines.

Worse, with social media, there is no warning that indicates the social media recommendations are not based on accuracy or reliability even though you would normally believe that a recommendation would be based on accuracy. In other words, with Yelp or Amazon, people generally tend to prefer products and vendors with a lot of recommendations. In contrast, with social media, a video will gain traction if it repeatedly clicked regardless of accuracy. There is no disclosure regarding the ranking algorithm that social media platforms use. Indeed, many users of social media are under the assumption that social media is more reliable, because it is based on their own searches, because they do not know the basis for why certain stories are recommended and pushed.

https://www.nationthailand.com/blogs/perspective/40015561

That's one of them though.

ramblings, incoherence, and lies, calling out everyone, including the interviewer.

Any real economist or outsider watching this saw right through the orange man.

MONEY is the biggest reason the media wants everyone to think it's close. The amount of money being spent on THIS election (my thinking) WILL be the most of ANY previous election!! Will we ever discover exactly what was spent? I don't know.

He's having a rally tonight, yet everyone is saying that he "can't campaign anymore"

Trump himself is probably the source of those rumors.