AUApostle 7,651 Posted May 5, 2021 Share Posted May 5, 2021 Found this helpful little tool which shows the political leanings of the news sources you 9or anyone) interact with on Twitter: https://ground.news/blindspotter/twitter Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AUDub 11,148 Posted May 5, 2021 Share Posted May 5, 2021 Interesting. I'll definitely cop to being a heavy left lean, but it's interesting that one of my top influences is an extremely well known Libertarian and one of my top sources is the Libertarian magazine Reason. Calling Popehat a solid left lean is pretty silly. He was anti-trump but he's anything but a leftist, and Nerd doesn't really comment on social issues on his Twitter. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AUDub 11,148 Posted May 5, 2021 Share Posted May 5, 2021 The 29% probably stems from my interactions with David French, Jonah Goldberg and organizations like the FIRE. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AUDub 11,148 Posted May 5, 2021 Share Posted May 5, 2021 IOW I think the app probably reached the right conclusion on my possible biases but for the wrong reasons. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TitanTiger 20,482 Posted May 6, 2021 Share Posted May 6, 2021 Mine said that I "do not interact with enough news on twitter to determine any bias." 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MDM4AU 332 Posted May 6, 2021 Share Posted May 6, 2021 Interesting... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AUApostle 7,651 Posted May 6, 2021 Author Share Posted May 6, 2021 18 minutes ago, TitanTiger said: Mine said that I "do not interact with enough news on twitter to determine any bias." Ah, the unpolluted mind. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jj3jordan 2,052 Posted May 6, 2021 Share Posted May 6, 2021 Why should “news” lean at all? 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TitanTiger 20,482 Posted May 6, 2021 Share Posted May 6, 2021 3 minutes ago, jj3jordan said: Why should “news” lean at all? Ideally they wouldn't. And several do a good job of minimizing biases - like Reuters, Poynter, etc. But most do, whether they're CNN, MSNBC, Fox, NewsMax or OAN because they're run by humans. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jj3jordan 2,052 Posted May 6, 2021 Share Posted May 6, 2021 Wish we could just get straight news without having to worry about political biases. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AUApostle 7,651 Posted May 7, 2021 Author Share Posted May 7, 2021 15 hours ago, jj3jordan said: Wish we could just get straight news without having to worry about political biases. That CNN director caught on tape said that the only chance of unbiased news comes from upstarts in their basements, but once you get a following your content gets compromised. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CoffeeTiger 5,108 Posted May 7, 2021 Share Posted May 7, 2021 1 hour ago, AUDevil said: That CNN director caught on tape said that the only chance of unbiased news comes from upstarts in their basements, but once you get a following your content gets compromised. IMO it's because a vast majority of people, no matter what they claim, don't want straight, unbiased news, they want their personal biases and beliefs to be confirmed and talked about. Straight, unbiased is boring and uninteresting to people. + a lot of times people will consider real news itself to be biased against them if it doesn't play to their own beliefs. 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DKW 86 7,423 Posted May 7, 2021 Share Posted May 7, 2021 Whats Twitter? i have an account from years ago when my church was going to use it. I think have 3-4 that follow me and i follow like 2. Havent turned it on since 2008 or 2009 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MDM4AU 332 Posted May 7, 2021 Share Posted May 7, 2021 17 hours ago, jj3jordan said: Wish we could just get straight news without having to worry about political biases. Check out https://join1440.com/about-us/ and https://www.allsides.com/unbiased-balanced-news. 1440 is the closet I’ve found and with AllSides, you at least get multiple angles to be able to wade through it all. Until humans are taken completely out of the equation there will always be biases, I guess. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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