Sometimes that is newsworthy though. For example, are people happy with ICE storm troopers running amok in their city and you're just the weird one not liking it, or are you one of many?

Problem is, it is often just 1-2 posts on Twitter. Maybe 5… Heck! maybe 10, but that’s it.

And it’s often people who are only superficially involved in the thing they are so expertly talking about.

Sometimes it’s teenagers who just want to troll adults, especially knowing that their posts could appear in the news. Sometimes it’s adults who want to troll other adults for the LOLs or to fulfill a particular agenda. Sometimes it’s bots, actually, usually bots. Something the posts don’t even exist.

You can't infer anything about 3 choice Twitter quotes copied into an article, though.

No, but this stuff would magically stop being newsworthy if the DNC linked oligarchy couldnt or didnt want to use it as a stick to beat the RNC linked oligarchy.

It's good that this ulterior motive exists but it's not something you can rely upon.

Similarly there wouldnt have been a pushback on net neutrality if big tech didnt want it so desperately.

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