These blogging platforms that many media host under their name and url are a fucking cancer and can be a powerful tool for manufacturing consent.

Anybody can write whatever the fuck they want and get it stamped with the supposed legitimacy of said media (only a fraction of the public will be aware enough to realize it’s not actually a proper op-ed or article). The media will conveniently claim lack of responsibility even though they give it their name, host it on their website, and possibly link to it (algorithmically or not, we can just never know) on actual op-eds and articles.

One might believe that it’s nice to empower regular people to express themselves on the internet. I’m not arguing against that. However, any bad state or otherwise organized actor, and even the host-media themself, can largely abuse it to push takes and claims that wouldn’t fly otherwise, and leverage the other means at their disposal to amplify them far beyond what regular people can achieve when using these platforms.

At what point does the hasbara get so pathetic that they just lay fuc it we are going to genocide anyway