Hacker News Reader

More than that... they are effectively filtering what news and information you see in general terms. More so than even the mainstream media ever could. It's been pretty well established that the people in charge of these organizations have a political bias and are not only able to, but willing to actively shift the messages that people see.

View on HN

The mainstream media decides what gets published before that content ever even reaches Facebook or Google. In terms of censorship power, the mainstream media is actually further upstream than social media and it can be argued it has more power to decide ultimately what gets published and what doesn’t, especially considering it purely uses human editorial judgment rather than algorithmic.

Reply on news.ycombinator.com