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Comment by ripjaygn | Hacker News Reader

Cherry picking anecdotes.

There's a lot of people missing X as evidenced in this article https://www.yahoo.com/news/brazilian-judge-suspends-x-platfo...

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That article does the exact same thing.

The WaPo article at least cites some actual stats:

> In 2022, only 3 percent of Brazilians cited the social network as their preferred location to consume political news, the area in which Twitter was once strongest, according to a survey by the Institute for Democracy and Democratization of Communication.

> That article does the exact same thing.

So you agree the WaPo article is crap? Because it uses anecdotes to prove a negative, while the article I linked disproves the WaPo by showing that some Brazilians do care. You can't prove a negative with anecdotes but you can prove a positive.

> So you agree the WaPo article is crap?

No, I'd suggest reading the next line of my comment. It "at least cites some actual stats" rather than quoting Cardi B and the admins of a Timothy Chalamet fan page.

No, I'd suggest reading the next line of my comment. You cannot prove a negative with incomplete stats.

3% of Brazilian population is still 6.45 million people who primarily use X for news. There are 23 million X users in Brazil. That's a lot of people.

That's an intentionally silly reading of the WaPo article's title, contents, and implications. They're fairly obviously not making the claim that zero Brazilians care. They're making the supported claim that Twitter's seen a decline in Brazil in recent years and is probably going to just shift over to other platforms, as we've already seen to some extent.

> 6.45 million people who primarily use X for news.

It's like 6.45 million people primarily using a mix of styrofoam and lead as basis for a healthy diet

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