New York Times Runs Elaborate Front-Page Sunday Smear of YouTube Conservatives

New York Times Runs Elaborate Front-Page Sunday Smear of YouTube Conservatives (Image of the Front Page and Links)

Kevin Roose, a technology writer for the New York Times, made a front-page splash on Sunday with “The Making of a YouTube Radical – How the Site’s Algorithms Played Into the Hands of the Far Right.” A caption underneath a photo of the story’s subject: “Caleb Cain likens the far right on YouTube to a “decentralized cult.”

https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/clay-waters/2019/06/09/ny-times-runs-elaborate-front-page-sunday-smear-youtube

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Page:
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/06/08/technology/youtube-radical.html

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Stefan Molyneux
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The New York Times: “Dangerous YouTubers are SO COMMON that in one small collage we had to reuse one guy’s face THREE times!”

i.e. @StefanMolyneux

After NYT Smear Against Youtubers Activists Target Phil Defranco As Alt Right Gateway

Philip DeFranco
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Hey uhhh @nytimes…what the fuck is this?

Philip DeFranco
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A buddy on the east coast just sent this to me.

They put the “Making Of A Youtube Radical” collage on the front page of the Sunday edition of the @nytimes.

Now it appears that I’m also a part of a “stew of emotional content”?

I’m gonna ditch the Internet today. See you Monday.

 

h/t KOS

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