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Barnmate retweeted
Thank you so much for writing this. I love this part—“Losing an election does not mean that you were wrong and they were right. It means you lost an election. I grew up in Mississippi watching my parents back candidates opposed to segregation. When those candidates lost, and they did for a long time, my parents didn't question if they were on the right side. They didn't ask themselves if the majority who supported segregation had proven the justness of their cause by winning.”
Barnmate retweeted
Metric is in a network of news sites that re-print one another, echo each other's talking points and lift up the voices of right-leaning think tanks like the Heritage Foundation and SBA Pro-Life
Reporting has also found it's a pay-to-play operation
nytimes.com/2020/10/18/techn…
Barnmate retweeted
The papers were all postmarked w/ the same Chicago address, for Metric Media, a pink-slime news operation that runs more than 1,100 websites. @TowCenter
cjr.org/tow_center_reports/m…
Barnmate retweeted
Let's start: What did residents in key counties in Arizona, North Dakota and Nevada all have in common on Oct 15?
They received a print paper with the same front page and headline
Barnmate retweeted
Where did Trump voters get their news? 📰
Yes, there's social and partisan sites, but there is another influential strategy that isn't getting enough attention: Manipulated, pay-to-play and all out fake news sites
I've been covering a mix of those for years. Here's a primer
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Barnmate retweeted
The vast majority of people I met never asked me my party, they talked about issues. They were kind. We could disagree and still respect one another. I can count on one hand how many people were rude to me.
There is more that unites us than divides us.
Don’t forget that.
Barnmate retweeted
I know that the majority of Americans are well-meaning, hard-working, good people who want what is best for their family and our country.
Barnmate retweeted
So to America, I say this:
Any diet that consists of only one source will lead to malnutrition.
The same is true of our media diet.
Question sources of information and motives in every scenario. Arm yourself with facts by doing research.
We will all be better off for it.
Barnmate retweeted
Social media is also to blame for propaganda. Their algorithms allow misinformation & disinformation to spread like wildfire, no matter the source or evidence.
Their content incites big emotions like anger and fear to hook people in so they get rich, no matter the consequences.
Barnmate retweeted
Fox is peddling propaganda to the masses day in & day out, making whatever claims they want without evidence to strike a chord with how viewers feel, picking and choosing what to air to ultimately promote policies that harm the American people and don’t serve our interests.
Barnmate retweeted
Based on countless conversations, I truly believe our biggest enemy here in the U.S. is propaganda - a slow drip poisoning the minds of Americans through conservative media like Fox & social media platforms like X.
Barnmate retweeted
I spent half of my time at doors combatting misinformation and lies like this.
Where might voters be getting all of this misleading and false information?
And who stands to benefit from these lies?
Barnmate retweeted
The fact is undocumented immigrants are receiving aid from nonprofits, charities, and state/local governments - not federal programs. ICE does provide some immigrants with cell phones, but they are used for tracking purposes & cannot make calls or text.
ice.gov/features/atd
Barnmate retweeted
But the overwhelming majority of folks I spoke with about the border shared that they believe immigrants are being given free handouts - cell phones, gift cards, healthcare, hotel rooms - all at the taxpayer’s expense, while we have homeless veterans sleeping on our streets.
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One of the most awful stories I heard? A businessman here in my district hires illegal immigrants and on payday calls ICE to get them deported. When I spoke with a labor lawyer about this, she told me that is happening all across the state. Most people understand this is wrong!
Barnmate retweeted
The #2 issue concerning voters was our border.
Most people I spoke with couldn’t name how the border crisis personally impacted them. While they would often bring up crime or drugs, many also had empathy for hardworking immigrants and agreed we need new pathways to citizenship.