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Alarmist claims aside, there are a lot of verifiable stories in the right-wing media bubble that are completely unknown to people in the left-wing bubble, and vice-versa. I really dig https://ground.news/blindspot just for giving some perspective on who's (not) getting exposed to what.

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All I see on that site right now is trivia. If that's all I am missing out on by reading the New Yorker, I think I will survive.

"WH Press Room Contains Figurine of What Appears to Be Trump's Head Beaten Up" is not something I need to waste my time reading.

The Left side tends to miss a lot of trivia, although occasionally something meaningful or important - but knowing those things helps me have conversations with people in the right-wing bubble and know what they're talking about. The Right side tends to miss a lot of fairly serious stuff related to Trump's legal problems. I find it worthwhile to keep a finger on the pulse of that site, but it's not my primary news source.

You would have a fairly difficult time convincing me that some Trump grievance junk reported only by RedState and InfoWars, sourced from Twitter, would be worth spending any time pondering. Conserving one's mental capacity is really the entire benefit of filter bubbles.

I think we're talking past each other. I'm talking about what facts are reported, and I'm saying that facts about ongoing Trump cases are not reported by news outlets on the right. (Just as facts about ongoing Hunter Biden cases are not reported on the left).

I find it useful in my daily life to know what each side is focused on and what their blind spots are. Call it information arbitrage.

As someone who doesn't fall squarely into the corporate left or corporate right bins I'm used to being attacked for not getting my news from the approved corporate media organs.

How can people think that someone is producing free news and research without an agenda? Do you think Elon Musk gets his information from reading blogs and $2/month NYT subscriptions? Musk, and people like him, have teams that research current events for them, and Musk has a platform on which he can influence the free information that people get and manipulate them for his benefit.

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