Feeding Hate With Video: A Former Alt-Right YouTuber Explains His Methods
Focus on conflict. Feed the algorithm. Make sure whatever you produce reinforces a narrative. Don’t worry if it is true.

Mr. Robertson would go on to produce videos for a who’s who of right-wing YouTube personalities on both sides of the Atlantic, including Lauren Southern, Stefan Molyneux and Alex Jones.

The videos were tailored for the “echo chamber” that is often created by social media networks like YouTube. To keep you watching, YouTube serves up videos similar to those you have watched before. But the longer someone watches, the more extreme the videos can become.

“It can create these very radical people who are like gurus,” said Guillaume Chaslot, a former YouTube engineer who has been critical of the way the company’s algorithms pushed people to extreme content. “In terms of watch time, a guru is wonderful.” (...)

Raw footage of the episode in Rome, provided by Mr. Robertson and reviewed by The New York Times, shows that the YouTube video was edited to give the false impression that Mr. Robinson was threatened. The full footage shows he was the aggressor.

 Lazy8 wrote: 

 Jiggz wrote:

Almost as shocking as Fox, the NY Post and others running the rigged-election lies for weeks and weeks and...

But as Sidney Powell can tell you now, “No reasonable person would conclude that the statements were truly statements of fact."

The conservative British paper The Daily Mail points out:

As a technical director, Chester operates video editing equipment for the cable network, where he has worked since 2018, according to his now-deleted LinkedIn bio.

It is unlikely that he would have had editorial input at CNN, or participated in the network's daily editorial calls. But Project Veritas argues that he has unique insights on the editorial culture at CNN, in which he would be immersed daily.

 Lazy8 wrote:
And gal.

Cancelled for vaingloriously blabbing on Tinder.

 ScottFromWyoming wrote:
The truth or falsehood of a statement doesn't depend on who makes it. In this case the Veritas guys think they've made a valuable contribution to the historical record but they're realy only confirming the blindingly obvious: CNN plays for Team Blue. Shocking, I know.

I'm guessing this dude is going to become an unperson at CNN by the end of the week, perhaps accompanied by a press release affirming CNN's commitment to unbiased journalism and denying partisan bias. You'll have to read it tho; no one could say it out loud with a straight face.

 ScottFromWyoming wrote:

I think it's important to recognize that posting a link to project veritas that purports to expose media bias is a display of symptoms likely described in the DSM-IV

Chester: “ hand was shaking or whatever, I think. We brought in so many medical people to tell a story that was all speculation — that he was neurologically damaged, and he was losing it. He's unfit to — you know, whatever. We were creating a story there that we didn't know anything about. That's what — I think that’s propaganda.”

What you always wanted to know about Bellingcat, the "home of investigative journalism". 

Glenn Greenwald: 
Journalists Attack the Powerless, Then Self-Victimize to Bar Criticisms of Themselves
"The primary target of the Trump-era media has become private citizens and people who wield no power, yet who these media outlets believe must have their lives ruined because they have adopted the wrong political ideology."

GA laws seem pretty innocuous (of course it takes going to a British news source).
Biden is sounding like a fool with his comments

Georgia voting: Fact-checking claims about the new election law

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