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Comment by petesergeant | Hacker News Reader

Ah, so the "mainstream media" "radio silence" here for an American politics story is in-fact complaining that on a specific date, it wasn't front-page news in ... the UK?

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Can you show me when it made front page in the US media?

I mean it helps that it isn't front page news. It's completely reasonable to disagree about the scale of a story. Most people disagree with you and shellenberger that this is important. What place do you have to demand that we interpret things the same way you do?

"most people" cannot disagree with them about the story's importance, because "most people" haven't heard about the it thanks to the suppression campaign. That's the whole issue you are trying to downplay.

So I'm confused, is any tweet that isn't reposted on the front page of the nyt "suppressed" now?

Those who have seen the story think it's not worth publishing. One of the points of news/media is to vet stories and exercise good judgement and editorial choice about what is worth publishing and what isn't.

There are no big revelations in the twitter files. It's mundane things like FBI employees asking Twitter to look at tweets telling Republicans to vote on the Wednesday after election day, when you can no longer vote. And Biden campaign(which was not in power, Trump admin was) sending Twitter links to a few tweets that have Hunter's leaked dick pics that were being spread without his permission(definition of revenge porn), to check if they violated Twitter's rules on revenge porn. It's a big yawn except for all the lies by the right wing causing outrage.

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