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Re:Can Mark Zuckerberg Fix Facebook Before It Breaks Democracy? by notacoward on Monday September 10, 2018 @11:37AM (#17952541)
I reject your framing of what the left's response has been. In fact, analyzing the 2016 occupies little of the left's response. We have been tuning policies, and messaging. Did you even notice that we had some primaries recently, in which several well established incumbents lost to challengers with a new message? What more proof could you need that the left is making actual changes instead of excuses? Your "concern" is based on an untrue assumption.

Don't mistake what the media reports for reality, especially not when the media is so polluted with people determined to muddy everything and exacerbate conflict. That's the modern way to distort the political conversation, practiced both by our international adversaries and by the current administration's domestic allies. Modern citizenship requires being alert to it, and resisting rather than magnifying its effects.

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Re:Can Mark Zuckerberg Fix Facebook Before It Breaks Democracy? by rossdavidh on Monday September 10, 2018 @11:45AM (#17952598)
Well I hope you are correct, and there certainly are some Democratic candidates (e.g. Beto in Texas) that seem to be adjusting. However, I don't think I would agree that the description "professional liars of the far right" fits the New Yorker.
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Re:Can Mark Zuckerberg Fix Facebook Before It Breaks Democracy? by notacoward on Monday September 10, 2018 @11:54AM (#17952656)
The funny thing about lies is that they spread. Often, the people who spread them are unaware that they're doing so. Most journalists tend to follow an established narrative, so each fact they report might be true but the sum can still be deeply misleading. The New Yorker fits this mold, but their contribution isn't really even interesting. The more important question is: who made that the dominant narrative when it poorly represents reality, and how? Also, what part do you and I play in the spread of those harmful memes?
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