#sensationalism — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #sensationalism, aggregated by home.social.
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“The Attention Engine: Media Manipulation, Institutional Decay, and the Strategy Behind Trump’s Grip on Power”
by Nolan Higdon in Savage Minds on Substack
@BBC5Live
@BBCRadio4
@BBCNews
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@Independent
@thetimes
@newyorktimes
@miamiherald“Trump’s media dominance is not a failure of corporate journalism and digital platforms but a feature of their business models. His political trajectory demonstrates that he is not the root cause of American democratic decay but its most visible symptom”
https://open.substack.com/pub/savageminds/p/the-attention-engine
#Press #SocialMedia #Journalism #Trump #Media #Manipulation #Propaganda #FloodingTheZone #FakeNews #Sensationalism #Distraction #Epstein #Conspiracy #EpistemicPopulism
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Ah, yes, the internet's architecture is apparently taking #democracy hostage—if only you could enable #JavaScript and #cookies to read the full conspiracy theory! 🍪🔍 But who needs facts when you've got sensationalism? 🙄
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.aei2409 #internetarchitecture #sensationalism #conspiracytheory #HackerNews #ngated -
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Fucking hell BBC! Stop using 'deadly' when you mean 'fatal'. You're not American. Or are you?
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https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Marcelin-LaVieParisienne-1863/
Three of about 12 images from an 1865 article about spiritists, people using mediums to communicate with the dead. Hugely popular in 1860s.
The article purports to be a translate of an English factual account, hah!.
The dresser looks like a robot :) Pus i get to use #undeadBeetles as a tag!
#vintageEngravings #sensationalism #spirits #undeadBeetles #FOBO #GIMP #Gimp_3 #GIMP3 #spiritualism #spiritists #spirites #undedMusicians #satire #unded #ghosts
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ABC to air Four Corners episode on Bondi terror attack despite Asio claim of ‘significant errors of fact’
“If the ABC chooses to publish claims it cannot substantiate – particularly ones it has been told are untrue – we will reserve our right to take further action,” the Asio statement said.
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Ah, the good ol' reliable train derailment saga... 🚂💥 Another day, another locomotive going rogue near #Barcelona. Once again, proving that even when #trains can't stay on tracks, the #news is always on track to sensationalize the obvious. 🙄📉
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c1m78xl0gmpo #trainwreck #sensationalism #railways #HackerNews #ngated -
🤖 Ah, the #irony of using #AI to index heinous archives while pretending it's just another day at the lab! 🚀 One wonders if the "Nozomio Labs" team had an existential crisis while giving their AI the delightful task of trudging through the muck of humanity’s worst. 🤔✨ Truly, cutting-edge #tech meets tabloid sensationalism! 🗂️💥
https://epstein.trynia.ai/ #NozomioLabs #sensationalism #existentialcrisis #HackerNews #ngated -
🔬🥒 Oh great, another groundbreaking revelation from the ivory towers of academia: #Manganese, the double-edged sword of Lyme disease! Because nothing says cutting-edge #science like rehashing old news with a side of #irony and a sprinkle of #sensationalism. 🎓🥳
https://news.northwestern.edu/stories/2025/11/manganese-is-lyme-diseases-double-edge-sword #LymeDisease #academia #HackerNews #ngated -
A quotation from Charles Mackay
The intrigues of unworthy courtiers to gain the favour of still more unworthy kings, or the records of murderous battles and sieges, have been dilated on, and told over and over again, with all the eloquence of style and all the charms of fancy; while the circumstances which have most deeply affected the morals and welfare of the people have been passed over with but slight notice, as dry and dull, and capable of neither warmth nor colouring.
Charles Mackay (1814-1889) Scottish poet, journalist, song writer
Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds, “The South-Sea Bubble” (1841)More info about this quote: wist.info/mackay-charles/79366…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #charlesmackay #historiography #history #intrigue #sensationalism #socialhistory #politicalhistory
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🥳 Oh, look! A spicy stew of buzzwords - transgender ideology, #rationalism, and #veganism - mixed into a deliciously absurd "death cult." 🍽️ Because clearly, when you run out of real news, it's time to stir the pot with sensationalist gibberish. 🤡
https://www.spiked-online.com/2025/08/16/inside-the-trans-vegan-death-cult/ #transgenderideology #deathcult #sensationalism #HackerNews #ngated -
With the advance of #aihallucinations being propelled to the top of your favourite search engine, #FakeNews and #sensationalism in news, regardless of where you lay on the political spectrum, and news articles that exist solely for generating clicks, the following quote never held any truer than today:
> "Hear all, trust nothing"
Rule No. 190 of the Ferengi Rules of Acquisition; one should ascribe to all available information, but never trust it at face value. The value of something must first be validated before it can gain a value of more than nothing.
#StarTrek #AI #Truth #TruthMatters #Mediabias #AISlop #Information
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it looks like we are being slowly conditioned now to accept #drones in our lived experience.... it starts like this with #sensationalism, headlines (aka #memes), jokes and #gaslighting etc
the campaign has started for wearing down our #resistance.... expect reports about how great drones would be for "#monitoring" (read: #surveillence)
#geofencing #autocracy #policing #jdvance #vance #palantir #peterthiel #acab
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"I’d like to end this piece with a comment on the Cable TV-ification of the web. A core belief that Anand and I have held dear... is [a] rebuke of sensationalism, link baiting... the need for quality, in-depth reporting has not changed. If anything, the need has increased as social media and changing advertising landscapes have made shallow, sensationalistic reporting all the more lucrative."
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#media #journalism #sensationalism #news #ClickBait #SocialMedia -
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A few days ago they announced a [“cocktail météorologique explosif”](https://www.rts.ch/info/suisse/2024/article/un-cocktail-meteorologique-explosif-attendu-samedi-en-suisse-romande-alerte-meteosuisse-28553427.html) but the result I saw from my vantage point was some medium rain, and plenty of rain and thunder. The thunder was constant for quite a while.
When I saw the weather warnings my fear was that we would end up with hail. I have seen the damage that hail can do to nature. It shreds trees, destroys veluxes and more. That we had rain and lightning is fine.
In Valais the Rhone overflowed, as well as in Tessin and apparently there was a torrential flow from the Col Du Simplon.
Rivers in Valais are overflowing but that’s ordinary. The Rhone has a flood plain. People built in the flood plain so when heavy rain falls it rises, and as it rises it reaches homes, and so people are affected. To make things worse plenty of new roads, new buildings and more surfaces are switched from nature, trees and more, to tarmac and concrete. When rain does fall it has nowhere to go, but into the first low lying ground it finds, whether basements, parkings, or other.
## Fear of Hail
My fear was hail, because when hail falls it shreds everything it hits. Trees are thrashed, car windows are broken, veluxes break, and upstairs floors get soaked. Luckily we didn’t have this. I have personally experienced the destructive power of hail on veluxes.
They say that [we should expect damage](https://www.letemps.ch/suisse/vaud/christophe-salamin-meteorologue-il-faut-s-attendre-a-de-la-casse-peut-etre-meme-pire-que-cette-semaine) but the reason for that damage, is partially due to the weather dumping more rain, faster than usual, but it’s also due to urbanisation, building where rivers used to flood, and removing gardens and more from other parts.
## Bétonification / Tarmacificiation
As I walk from village to village I see that where individual houses once stood you have tarmac parkings and concrete buildings and gardens are an afterthought. When it rains the rain that would have fallen onto a tree, and then dripped to the ground, is now falling straight to tarmac, tile roofs and concrete. Where houses were once slightly above the nearby road, they are now flat against it.
## Nowhere for Water to Flow
When rain falls it can’t pool in a garden, or rest in a tree before trickling to the ground. It hits the hard surfaces and flows like a river, down roads, into basements, garages and other places. It flows through homes as well.
## Invisible Problem Due to Droughts
We have had five years of drought. During that time a lot was built, and now that the drought is on a break people are realising that they have built where rivers want to flow. They have found that the building they did on the hills, is affecting areas downstream, such as in Morges, and along the Rhone.
## Volatile Weather
Yes, the weather is more volatile, but nature has also been replaced, so that water flows straight from where it lands into rivers, which causes flooding. The point is that the weather is becoming more extreme, so the coverage is partly right, but by being alarmist about the weather, it deflects from the responsability of developers in regards to how they build where they shouldn’t, without considering rainfall and water flow.
[Un urbaniste de l’EPFL dézingue les villes suisses: «Notre modèle de développement urbain a généré l’inondation de Morges»](https://www.msn.com/fr-ch/actualite/other/un-urbaniste-de-l-epfl-d%C3%A9zingue-les-villes-suisses-notre-mod%C3%A8le-de-d%C3%A9veloppement-urbain-a-g%C3%A9n%C3%A9r%C3%A9-l-inondation-de-morges/ar-BB1p11B6)
## And Finally
Human activity has released carbon dioxide and methane into the sky and it will take at least two hundred years for that carbon dioxide to degrade. In that time rainfall patterns will shift, which will lead to more droughts and floods. By building in the wrong places, without thinking of rain, we are amplifying the effects of heavy rain, rather than mitigating them.
Weather forecasters sensationalise the effects, without speaking about how to mitigate and avoid the risks. That the alert went up to five yesterday shows what an effect urbanisation has had.
Weather weirding does have an impact on weather, but so does bad urban planning. With approrpiate urban planning flash floods and heavy rain are taken into consideration to mitigate risk.
As I write this I see that Canal9, a local TV station has been taken offline due to flooding in Valais.
And finally, although the rain might be a lot heavier than usual, urbanisation does play a role, and this should be discussed, and measures should be taken to mitigate such risks.
https://www.main-vision.com/richard/blog/the-americanisation-of-swiss-weather-forecasting/
#sensationalism #storms #weather #weatherForecasting #weatherWeirding
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🦗The Buzz on Cicadas: Sexuality and Sensationalism 🐛
Billions of cicadas emerge, but headlines focus on "gay zombie cicadas" and a "creepy fungus." Let's set the record straight and discuss how we talk about wildlife. 🦠🌈🐜🔗 https://blog.nwf.org/2024/05/the-buzz-on-cicadas-sexuality-and-sensationalism/
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Israel Vala claims that: Earlier this week, Iran sent a message to the Biden administration through several Arab countries:
If the United States intervenes in the war between Israel and Iran, American forces in the region will be attacked.
They have not said where they got this information from and why has US, UK, Germany and France have suddenly turned into guardians of Israeli security.But it's the time of sensationalism, anyone can come up with something and then it is turns into "fact" after a few rounds of quotes.
Soon, it will Turner not something completely different and they are going through claim that Iran have said that US targets will be attacked at the same time Iran retaliates again Israeli bombing of it's consulate in Damascus.
Just wait and see (now I'm making up the story, let's see how it goes).
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The Unfortunate Necessity of Fear Mongering
Sensationalism creates social movement--or maybe not.
https://tiereddemocraticgovernance.org/blog_details.php?blog_cat_id=23&id=49
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🇳🇫 #TAIWAN (#台灣): ❝[All] New #pork samples test negative: Cabinet❞
https://www.taipeitimes.com/News/taiwan/archives/2024/02/10/2003813355
#laboratory_contamination
#sensationalism
#Taichung
#台中市
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Disappointed but not at all surprised about military scenarios being presented as facts in various print and electronic medias. #Sensationalism is not helping. #media #news
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Headline: Deepfake movie remakes prompt the creation of false memories
Reality: Any lies (including false descriptions) prompt the creation of false memoriesAlso "Many also reported that the deepfake was better than the original" followed by 41%, 13%, 12% and 9% for four films 😑 (And I bet Captain Marvel was so high because of baseless hate and prejudice)
https://newatlas.com/technology/deepfake-movie-remakes-prompt-false-memories/
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Via @e8d79:
New browser extension fixes YouTube thumbnails by:
- Removing sensational language from video titles
- Replacing clickbait thumbnail images with a still image that is actually from the video
https://beehaw.org/post/716342
#YouTube #Clickbait #Marketing #DeceptivePatterns #DeceptiveDesign #Sensationalism #Anxiety #CognitiveDisability #UX
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How the media is covering ChatGPT
The Tow Center looked at how news organizations have been covering generative AI over the past six months
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Well, I didn’t watch because I knew their motive. Sadly, others couldn’t look away from the dumpster fire.
#CNN Gets Big Boost With #Trump #TownHall
Though widely criticized, the telecast draws the network's largest primetime audience in months.
People, do better.
Make businesses pay for who they support.
#YellowJournalism #Sensationalism #Ratings #PoliticsIsNotARealityTVShow
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Media Crime Hype Helps Roll Back Reforms
Actual data about life and death in jails is not enough to move New York's governor, but the sensationalism about crime is enough.
https://fair.org/home/media-crime-hype-helps-roll-back-reforms/
#Crime&Punishment #NewYorkCity #NewYorkPost #Sensationalism
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I am once again asking news #media , ESPECIALLY paywalled news media, to take more responsibility for your headlines and quit contributing to making the world a worse place.
