Study: alt-right propaganda caused unfair anti-Hillary spin throughout MSM

[Bacon King]

http://www.cjr.org/analysis/breitbart-media-trump-harvard-study.php

This fascinating study from Columbia University uses a Harvard platform for studying the dissemenation of media content to demonstrate that Breitbart-style fake news caused mass media as a whole to become unfairly anti-Clinton in the 2016 election. The paper demonstrates the existence of a right wing "bubble", its methods of propagation, and the vectors through which it 'contaminated' the overall media landscape

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I find it alarming that blatant propaganda can have such a forceful impact on our nation. Indeed, it appears that Trump's own chief strategist has created a veritable propaganda empire, with tens of millions of "inhabitants" who were able to tip an entire election with nothing but the creation and propagation of their own "fake news".


Trump supporters who might seek to defend your news sources in this thread: please actually read the link before responding! Let's not run around in circles in a pointless argument just because someone gets stubborn and makes assumptions about the study without even looking! Thanks

[Hindsight was 2020]

I was saying months ago that the RW world lives in more of a bubble then the East/West coasts they rip on

[Chunk Yogurt for President!]

"Alt right"

I don't remember any news stories about "Jewish conspiracies" during the election.

[Virginiá]

Hah, StatesPoll is in this:

[Dr. Arch]

Hah, StatesPoll is in this:

Lmao

[(Still) muted by Kalwejt until March 31]

[(Still) muted by Kalwejt until March 31]

Hah, StatesPoll is in this:

Lmao

Aren't something like 70% of Trump's Twitter followers just fake accounts?

-No. Roughly 5% of both Trump's and HRC's twitter followers were fake.

[EnglishPete]

I was saying months ago that the RW world lives in more of a bubble then the East/West coasts they rip on

Well lets have a look at the information in the report. If we look at this graphic of October 2016 Facebook shares we see that there are two main groups of media outlets. A right wing new nexus, centered around right wing news outlets like Breitbart, Fox News and Daily Caller. And a left wing new nexus centered around left wing news outlets like CNN, New York Times and Washington Post



So the question is are left wingers more likely to read  left wing outlets exclusively or are right wingers the ones more likely to read right wing outlets exclusively.

Well lets look at the detail that Virginia mentioned in her post



We can see from this that DJT retweeters frequently shared news stories from at four or five left wing media outlets. HRC retweeters, by contrast don't have a single right wing source in their list of top sources.

[Associate Justice PiT]

     So the MSM moderated from being profoundly pro-Clinton to just very pro-Clinton? Interesting to know.

[Blackacre]

I was saying months ago that the RW world lives in more of a bubble then the East/West coasts they rip on

Well lets have a look at the information in the report. If we look at this graphic of October 2016 Facebook shares we see that there are two main groups of media outlets. A right wing new nexus, centered around right wing news outlets like Breitbart, Fox News and Daily Caller. And a left wing new nexus centered around left wing news outlets like CNN, New York Times and Washington Post



So the question is are left wingers more likely to read  left wing outlets exclusively or are right wingers the ones more likely to read right wing outlets exclusively.

Well lets look at the detail that Virginia mentioned in her post



We can see from this that DJT retweeters frequently shared news stories from at four or five left wing media outlets. HRC retweeters, by contrast don't have a single right wing source in their list of top sources.

NYT/WaPo/CNN are not left wing

[ApatheticAustrian]

     So the MSM moderated from being profoundly pro-Clinton to just very pro-Clinton? Interesting to know.

to be totally fair, i think "real world" anti-clinton stories would have been beggared without the NYT and to a smaller amount CNN.

[EnglishPete]

NYT/WaPo/CNN are not left wing

LMAO

[(Still) muted by Kalwejt until March 31]

NYT/WaPo/CNN are not left wing

LMAO

[Gass3268]

It was pretty obvious throughout the campaign that the conservative mainstream media was pro-Trump and anti-Hillary, especially CNN.

[ApatheticAustrian]

the NYT is obviously left-wing, but still one of the most respected media outlets in the world.

the WAPO is pro-establishment and since the republicans became more radical, the WAPO became more democrat by association.

CNN isn't left-wing at all....it just employs idiots from both parties.

[Beet]

New York Times, Washington Post, Fox News strike deals for anti-Clinton research

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http://www.politico.com/blogs/media/2015/04/new-york-times-washington-post-fox-news-strike-deals-for-anti-clinton-research-205791

[EnglishPete]

the NYT is obviously left-wing,

Yep

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When has the Washington Post ever been pro Republican?

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LMAO

[🐒Gods of Prosperity🔱🐲💸]

I didn't see any evidence in this article that the alt-right websites were responsible for the shape of the MSM narrative.   They showed that the focus of the MSM news was more shaped by Trump's agenda than by Clinton's, but that could just as easily be because he was better at putting forth a compelling message.

A faulty assumption this article makes is that facebook and twitter shares are representative of news intake as a whole.  But that inflates the importance of Breitbart and Daily Caller versus Fox News or evening news programs that people may be watching but not engaging with online.

[Absentee Voting Ghost of Ruin]

"Alt right"

I don't remember any news stories about "Jewish conspiracies" during the election.

Thanks for (unnecessarily) confirming several stereotypes about Trump cultists.


New Trump ad features prominent Jews in deriding ‘global power structure’
http://www.jta.org/2016/11/06/news-opinion/politics/new-trump-ad-focuses-on-prominent-jews-in-deriding-international-bankers

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[EnglishPete]

"Alt right"

I don't remember any news stories about "Jewish conspiracies" during the election.

Thanks for (unnecessarily) confirming several stereotypes about Trump cultists.


New Trump ad features prominent Jews in deriding ‘global power structure’
http://www.jta.org/2016/11/06/news-opinion/politics/new-trump-ad-focuses-on-prominent-jews-in-deriding-international-bankers

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The Trump campaign is hardly responsible for the fact that Jewish people are highly successful and overrepresented (compared with their population size) at senior levels of the financial services industry.

Note : Before anyone accuses me of anti-semitism or nazism or something like that (as I'm sure such accusations will be along shortly) I would point out that this disproportionate success in certain areas of business is not particular to Jews but is something that Jewish people share with some other Diaspora peoples (e.g. Chinese diaspora, Lebanese diaspora, Nizari diaspora, Parsi diaspora etc) and that this is likely caused by various aspects of the social psychology of living in a certain type of diaspora community rather than by any 'conspiracy'.

[ApatheticAustrian]

this is not at all antisemitic if you express it in some harmless context or in a neutral voice.

the opposite way of milo using it for starters.

i don't believe one second that trump is somehow anti-semitic....but he surrounds himself with people who write dog-whistle speeches for him which are usually meant to (((inform))) about the GLOBALIST agenda of politicans, banks, etc.....

[RINO Tom]

I was saying months ago that the RW world lives in more of a bubble then the East/West coasts they rip on

Well lets have a look at the information in the report. If we look at this graphic of October 2016 Facebook shares we see that there are two main groups of media outlets. A right wing new nexus, centered around right wing news outlets like Breitbart, Fox News and Daily Caller. And a left wing new nexus centered around left wing news outlets like CNN, New York Times and Washington Post



So the question is are left wingers more likely to read  left wing outlets exclusively or are right wingers the ones more likely to read right wing outlets exclusively.

Well lets look at the detail that Virginia mentioned in her post



We can see from this that DJT retweeters frequently shared news stories from at four or five left wing media outlets. HRC retweeters, by contrast don't have a single right wing source in their list of top sources.

NYT/WaPo/CNN are not left wing

They can be credible (on most things) and still biased as .