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4. It's worse than bs.

Reply to Silent Type (Reply #1)

Tue Feb 20, 2024, 11:33 PM

Feb 2024

It's been a well-known right-wing tactic to manipulate such unscientific polls and surveys to bend the media to their will.

Working the ref, as it were.

They've been doing this since the days of jamming radio station fax machines.

So, yeah, the right-wing will come out in force to say anything the put out is left-wing biased to force them to go even more right-wing

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A Problem with Newsweek's "Fairness Meter" [View all] ThoughtCriminal Feb 2024 OP

Think you have to actually click on meter. Besides, wouldn't make sense to put Silent Type Feb 2024 #1

It's worse than bs. unblock Feb 2024 #4

Perhaps the feature is functioning exactly as they intend it to? RockRaven Feb 2024 #2

Newsweek is a RW rag Fiendish Thingy Feb 2024 #3