How the propaganda systems work
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Really interesting article here on the massive differences in support for Trump among people who primarily get their news from various platforms:
A large part of this divergence is down to selection, because people increasingly gravitate toward news sources that fit their worldview. (As one example, you won’t find too many liberals watching Fox News!) But in some cases, like with Twitter under Elon Musk, I think we have good reason to suspect that the platform is making people more right-wing.
For example, a study led by researchers at Northeastern University suggested that social media algorithms can amplify certain sentiments in ways that meaningfully influence respondent preference. And the numbers we have do lend some support to that theory; for instance, consider that Trump has lost the least support on Twitter.
This gives you the breakdown by news site in terms of Trump’s approval rating:
A friend points out that the local TV news numbers are at least mildly encouraging, given Sinclair’s efforts to turn that medium into a right wing echo chamber.
. . . updating the evolving story of Trump’s totally not racist Truth Social post depicting the Obamas as apes:
The Truth Social account of President Donald Trump on Friday morning removed a racist image showing former President Barack Obama and former first lady Michelle Obama portrayed as apes after outrage over the post.
The depiction of the Obamas, posted late Thursday from Trump’s official Truth Social account, was included in a video clip pushing a conspiracy theory about voting machines during the 2020 election.
The White House initially defended Trump’s post when asked for comment on Friday morning, but the sole Black Republican senator quickly called for Trump to remove the post.
“This is from an internet meme video depicting President Trump as the King of the Jungle and Democrats as characters from the Lion King,” press secretary Karoline Leavitt said in an emailed statement earlier Friday.
A screenshot from a video President Donald Trump posted to his social media platform, Truth Social, on Feb. 5, 2026. The video shows the faces of President Barack Obama and former first lady Michelle Obama superimposed over animated apes.
“Please stop the fake outrage and report on something today that actually matters to the American public,” Leavitt said.
Leavitt’s reply included a link to a longer video posted Oct. 24 from a pro-Trump meme account on X.
Hours later, the post was deleted from Trump’s Truth Social account.
A White House official, speaking on condition of anonymity, said that a White House staffer erroneously posted the video and that it since had been taken down.
CNN’s source claimed it was a “senior staffer.” The cover story here that rando White House staffers can post whatever they want at midnight on the president’s own social media account as if it was a post from him (of course it WAS a post from him, but work with me here) would be The Scandal of the Century all by itself, if not for all that economic anxiety that we have to treat very very seriously.