Because you can't get doomlooped into right-wing podcasts and "citizen journalism" on the TV.

Sample quotes from men in the study:

"Who tells me what's right and what's wrong... is it true or is it not true? Some of the things on YouTube are independent. I find I would listen to them more, because they're on the ground. They're telling you the story. "

"If you see something on social media, whether you believe it or not, you can go to the comments and see everyone's points… If most people agree with it, you know you should be at least somewhat agreeing with it. "

"It seems to everyone that it's an agenda, like the government's behind an agenda… it's like a brainwashing tool for the government. An illegal immigrant killed someone in the street the other day, stabbed them to death… And it's all over Facebook, all over YouTube. And the news hasn’t even said anything about it"

Only one man mentioned using YouTube for entertainment.

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ChrisRR 9 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Those quotes read like the quotes you'd read from someone's facebook after they've committed an atrocity

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Melonai 8 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Those comments are something... I take the most issue with the second one. I wonder if the person knows they're directly describing group-think. That's something that would theoretically get you called a "sheeple" in some places, unless you agree with the general opinion held by most people there, of course. :)

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twobitshifter 8 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

> Because you can't get doomlooped into right-wing podcasts and "citizen journalism" on the TV.

FoxNews, NewsMax, AM Radio are already good enough for that. I’ve also noticed that most of the guests on TV News are now YouTubers, so even if you are watching TV, you are going to see them.

Citizen journalism can be a bad thing, like the Nick Shirley example, but the alternative seems to be that only news Larry Ellison or some other billionaire approves will get on TV, that seems like a far worse scenario to me.

For the Iran war, on YouTube, you can see Canadian journalists sailing in the strait of Hormuz and interviews with real Iranians. You cannot see this on CBS.

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beejiu 8 hours ago | parent [-]

I can only speak from a UK perspective, but all broadcast media here is regulated. So the things you might see in the US just can't happen and don't happen here. Everything has to be editorially balanced. Online media doesn't fall under the same regulations.

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wrxd 8 hours ago | parent [-]

GB News?

	▲	beejiu 8 hours ago \| parent [-]
		GB News gets a lot of criticism, but I watch the odd show and I've always found it to be balanced. There's a lot of political and regulatory pressure against them, so much so that GB News took Ofcom to the High Court and overturned illegal actions that Ofcom had taken.

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duskdozer 9 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Sigh. Those comments are truly something.