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UpInArms

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2. Social media has played a significant role in the destruction of news reporting

Reply to Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin (Original post)

Tue Dec 30, 2025, 02:02 PM

20 hrs ago

When fakebook posts and twitler shit goes viral and people stop reading newspapers for information and advertisers leave for clicks on the inner tubes …

There is no way for a legitimate news organization to be financially independent and stable

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Who is Nick Shirley, the 23-year-old MAGA journalist whose Minnesota fraud story went viral? [View all] Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin 20 hrs ago OP

Watch him get absolutely demolished here on his "reporting" in Ukraine. Tommy Carcetti 20 hrs ago #1

Social media has played a significant role in the destruction of news reporting UpInArms 20 hrs ago #2

The underlying problem is that the mainstream viewer LuvLoogie 15 hrs ago #4

CNN did a puff piece on him senseandsensibility 18 hrs ago #3

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Bye obamanut2012 15 hrs ago #6

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Go to hell, fascist, and fucking cone on.mirt obamanut2012 15 hrs ago #8

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The state investigated all the facilities today and yesterday NickB79 15 hrs ago #11

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you could be talking about Trump.2 Skittles 15 hrs ago #12

This message was self-deleted by its author obamanut2012 15 hrs ago #9

Facilities should sue him and everyone that carried the story Johonny 15 hrs ago #13

I'll play kwolf68 12 hrs ago #15

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Damn LG, back again. Emile 12 hrs ago #17