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Re:Ask HN: How do we stop the polarization/toxicicity fillin... by TuringNYC on Friday January 31, 2020 @01:35PM (#22204166)
>> When reporters on Twitter freak out about the trolls on 4chan like it's some disease infecting our precious wholesome web

Without making excuses for 4chan, perhaps the reporters should freak out about their own behavior first? So much of the news-media has an incredibly narrow focus, almost to be lying by omission. For a minority member of society, reporters are the 4-chan.

One of thousands of examples: https://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-harvey-20170829-story.h...

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Re:Ask HN: How do we stop the polarization/toxicicity fillin... by watwut on Friday January 31, 2020 @02:27PM (#22204722)
However, this factor is better now then it used to. If anything the previously less represented groups have much more ability to make themselves heard then before. The mass media used to be more uniform before the internet got popular.
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