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[–] niktemadur@lemmy.world 4 points 6 days ago (1 children)

How much overlap is there?
Because I'd bet the same type of asshole that listens to assholes like shapiro, peterson, etc, also listens to rogan.

[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 2 points 6 days ago

not much, they are funded by the same person/people, and the get thier propaganda marching orders from a "country" known for its troll farms.

[–] basketugly@lemmy.world 4 points 6 days ago

I don't listen to or follow any of the sources on the chart, and I don't like politics. That said, as a passerby I thought it was an interesting chart. One thing I thought about, the legacy media that is highly manipulated in my opinion is dominated by so-called left and the pseudo independent in my opinion voices in red on the chart are dominated by so-called right.

I believe most people no longer trust the legacy media and are turning to just about anything else as an alternative.

I think most people mistakenly think that some of these voices in red are independent of or not affected by persuasion, coercion, other. Some of these voices in red are also potentially literal government agents.

All that said, I also find it interesting that there are not more blue dots: pseudo independent so-called left voices.

Does this mean that the so-called left audience is captive to the legacy media? And/or does this mean that the so-called left audience does not trust independent voices?

I will check some of the comments to the original post to see if anybody has thoughts on that.

Anyways, thanks for your time.

[–] livingcoder@programming.dev 3 points 6 days ago

You wouldn't know it with all of the crying they do any time a left-leaning policy position is shared online. You would think that they're being bullied off of the internet.

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