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Re:The Making of a YouTube Radical by pacala on Saturday June 08, 2019 @01:27PM (#20133698)
The choice of the text scrolling over the collage, however, is the author's / NYT's doing.

> Caleb Cain was a college dropout looking for direction. He turned to YouTube.

> Soon, he was pulled into a far-right universe, watching thousands of videos filled with conspiracy theories, misogyny and racism.

> I was brainwashed

If some, in the admission of the writer, are not far right / [insert some other libelous term here], is it fair to label them all as such?

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Re:The Making of a YouTube Radical by mistermann on Saturday June 08, 2019 @02:24PM (#20134122)
All's fair in love and meme wars, which is what this is. At the end of the day, I think the implicit "one side is using facts and truth, the other is using lies and deceit" narrative is effective, but it also has weakness in that it is a bit lacking in the truth department. I'm not liking the direction these debates are going though.
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