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Originally Posted by rubecube
Why? The DW is probably the largest right-wing media outlet outside of Fox News, and growing larger by the day. They are incredibly well-funded and very good at manipulating social media algorithms to ensure their content is distributed as widely as possible.
Being tapped into it is necessary to understand modern right-wing politics, especially in the U.S.
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The Daily Wire has 890k paid subscribers.
For context:
New York Times 10.75 million
Washington Post 2.75 million
Wall Street Journal 3 million
LA Times 4.4 million
‘We need to be vigilant and outraged about the far right to understand what’s happening in politics’ is the same justification the right have for their brand of outrage-mongering. It all just feeds off each other.