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    14 days ago

    This is the 21st century version of the local TV news broadcasters from the end of the 20th century:

    “Some beef products are killing our city’s residents, 10 now dead. Find out if you have these in your fridge right now when we return from this commercial break”.

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    New poll shows whether Harris or Trump is leading in favorability rating

    A recently-released poll purports to contain information about the current relative popularity of presidential candidates Kamala Harris and Donald Trump with voters. We heard reports that the poll’s findings are “informative”, yet “probably outdated in two weeks”. The intended target audience is people with an interest in American politics who can read and compare numbers, although sources informed us that one or more graphical representation (or “graph”) is provided for less mathematically-inclined people.

    At press time, the Democrats have confirmed that the poll indeed shows relative popularity numbers while Donald Trump merely remarked that “we have the best polls, tremendous polls, everyone tells me about the numbers, it’s great”.

    Pundits suggest that this kind of poll is commonly associated with the election season and that further polls are likely. We will keep you informed as the situation develops.

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    You know what got me upset right now is that pretty soon “a news happened” is all they will need to say to get you to click, because the algorithm will know you well enough to predict the stories that interest you, and will reliably provide interesting stories so we all end up trusting it completely. “A News Happened” and your pavlovian lizard brain will stand at attention because it consistently scratches that itch.