Social media influence is undeniable in forwarding this collapse of viable, honest news media.
Last week CNN wrote this about the Atlanta shootings as a headline article, front page
https://www.cnn.com/2021/03/18/polit...ans/index.html
First sentence of the article:
it's
immaterial whether the accused killer in the Atlanta spa shootings admits to a racist motivation. Asian Americans, already traumatized by a rising tide of hate, violence and rhetoric, have been living in fear for months
They are openingly saying “the facts don’t matter” here is the narrative you must believe.
This was written as the facts started to unravel in a USA Today article which interviewed people in his group home stating the guy had a sex addiction so terrible he was in group home therapy. They couldn’t find anyone to say he was a racist...social media post aside from a single China Virus” post didn’t give us insight to a character other than he was deeply religious.
If we actually look at crime stats acts of violence against Asians...and just other recent events...the white supremacy argument folds quickly.
It’s what’s exactly is happening today with the Boulder shooting...yesterday the narrative was “another white guy mass shooting”...today it “we need gun control”
What changed? We found out the shooters name. Bigoted statements on social media are being erased included those from meena Harris and daily show about evil whitey.