this post was submitted on 20 Oct 2024
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Let me frame this like so:
It's just another example of capitalist for-profit corporations that maximize profits while offloading their negative externalities onto the rest of us.
They know they're making money when they tell lies and they don't care about the downstream effects. For some the downstream effects might even be desirable.
Another way to frame it is: corporate media makes money, with informing (or disinforming) the public as a byproduct.