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Kevin Karhan :verified:<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://berlin.social/@mina" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>mina</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://troet.cafe/@geist" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>geist</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@CGdoppelpunkt" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>CGdoppelpunkt</span></a></span> +9001%</p><p>Die Aufgabe von <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/Journalisten" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Journalisten</span></a> ist nicht fauler <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/Bothsideism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Bothsideism</span></a> sondern die <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/Wahrheit" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Wahrheit</span></a> und <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/Fakten" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Fakten</span></a> zu präsentieren!</p><ul><li>Alles andere ist <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/PublicRelations" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PublicRelations</span></a>!!!</li></ul>
William Lindsey :toad:<p>As a fellow white man who, in contrast to Stewart and Maher, has never enjoyed all the perks and privileges heterosexuality affords, I can only say that I long since began turning a deaf ear to Stewart and Maher and men like them.</p><p>Privilege blinds. Unexamined privilege — and the colossal privilege afforded striaght white men is too seldom examined by said men — spectacularly blinds.</p><p><a href="https://toad.social/tags/JonStewart" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>JonStewart</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Trump</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/dictatorship" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>dictatorship</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/cruelty" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>cruelty</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/BothSideism" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>BothSideism</span></a> <br />/3</p>
William Lindsey :toad:<p>As Doktor Zoom writes, &quot;He sure seems reluctant to see that the problem isn’t that we’re &#39;polarized,&#39; but that we’re under assault and maybe the problem isn’t that in the face of gathering fascism, some people are going overboard by burning some Teslas….&quot;</p><p>I&#39;m reading similar commentary about another icon of many US liberals, Bill &quot;But Trump&#39;s So Charming and Nice&quot; Maher.</p><p><a href="https://toad.social/tags/JonStewart" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>JonStewart</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Trump</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/dictatorship" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>dictatorship</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/cruelty" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>cruelty</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/BothSideism" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>BothSideism</span></a> <br />/2</p>
William Lindsey :toad:<p>Wonkette&#39;s Doktor Zoom has good, zingy commentary on Jon Stewart&#39;s &quot;who could have imagined&quot; admission that his anodyne, misleading both-sideism about Biden-Trump and Democrats-Republicans didn&#39;t see what a lot of the rest of us saw coming: savagery, looming dictatorship, real horrors.</p><p><a href="https://toad.social/tags/JonStewart" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>JonStewart</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Trump</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/dictatorship" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>dictatorship</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/cruelty" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>cruelty</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/BothSideism" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>BothSideism</span></a> <br />/1</p><p><a href="https://www.wonkette.com/p/jon-stewart-very-sorry-he-believed" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">wonkette.com/p/jon-stewart-ver</span><span class="invisible">y-sorry-he-believed</span></a></p>
Kevin Karhan :verified:<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://toot.cat/@riley" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>riley</span></a></span> yeah...</p><p>I guess <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/TheEconomist" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TheEconomist</span></a> has still too much revenue to pay for <a href="https://infosec.space/@kkarhan/114296973691324583" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">sponsorships</a>... </p><ul><li>Classic <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/Bothsideism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Bothsideism</span></a> aka. <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/FalseBalancing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FalseBalancing</span></a> cuz <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/centrists" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>centrists</span></a> are that shit!</li></ul><p><a href="https://infosec.space/tags/USpol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>USpol</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/Media" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Media</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/MassMedia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MassMedia</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/Disinformation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Disinformation</span></a></p>
Peter Valkema<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://journa.host/@w7voa" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>w7voa</span></a></span> 'lecturer in journalism'? This sounds like you missed a lecture or two. Maybe watch this thing again and write what really happened. <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/journalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>journalism</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/bothsideism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>bothsideism</span></a></p>
Claes de Vreese ☑️<p>This so-called 'uncensored' approach leads to 'bothsideism', even when both sides are not equal. For example when it comes to climate or health information. Or election outcomes.</p><p>"OpenAI’s effort to land in the good graces of the new Trump administration"</p><p>A big question is if the approach also applies to e.g. answers about the impact of big tech?</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/bigtech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>bigtech</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/AI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AI</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/bothsideism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>bothsideism</span></a></p><p><a href="https://techcrunch.com/2025/02/16/openai-tries-to-uncensor-chatgpt/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">techcrunch.com/2025/02/16/open</span><span class="invisible">ai-tries-to-uncensor-chatgpt/</span></a></p>
Kevin Karhan :verified:<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://newsie.social/@altpapier" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>altpapier</span></a></span> <em>EXAKT DAS!</em></p><ul><li>Falscher <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/Bothsideism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Bothsideism</span></a> ist ein massives Problem!</li></ul><p>Mit <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/Neonazis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Neonazis</span></a> wie <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/Christofaschidten" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Christofaschidten</span></a> redet mensch nicht, sondern zwingt diese zur bedingungslosen Kapitulation!!!</p>
OmbertoAldobrandeschi<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://ard.social/@tagesschau" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>tagesschau</span></a></span> <br>Recherchieren, einordnen.<br>Nicht nur zitieren.<br><a href="https://social.anoxinon.de/tags/bothsideism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>bothsideism</span></a></p>
OmbertoAldobrandeschi<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://squeet.me/profile/wdr" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>wdr</span></a></span> Ja, war es. Putin hat längst einen hybriden Krieg gegen uns begonnen. Dabei setzt er auch auf die Recherchefaulheit und den Hang zum <a href="https://social.anoxinon.de/tags/bothsideism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>bothsideism</span></a> westlicher Medien.<br>Bis jetzt klappt das 1a. In den USA hat Russland damit sogar die Präsidentschaftswahl gewonnen, hier AfD und BSW Breitenwirkung verschafft.</p>
fink<p>Habeck und Weidel im TV-Duell? Friedbert Meurer fragt im Deutschlandfunk, ob das nicht *für beide* eine Zumutung wäre, weil das doch "sehr weit auseinanderliegende Pole" seien.</p><p>All I want for christmas is Voodoopuppen aller Journalistys.</p><p><a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/Journalismus" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Journalismus</span></a><br><a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/Bothsideism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Bothsideism</span></a><br><a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/TVDuell" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TVDuell</span></a></p>
Kevin Karhan :verified:<p>Ich hasse <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6qn9Di59oOg" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">diesen</a> <em>"<a href="https://infosec.space/tags/libert%C3%A4r" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>libertär</span></a>|en" <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/Bothsideism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Bothsideism</span></a></em> welcher <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/Menschenfeindlichkeit" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Menschenfeindlichkeit</span></a> als <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/debattierbar" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>debattierbar</span></a> darstellt...</p><p><a href="https://infosec.space/tags/HostileDesign" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>HostileDesign</span></a> gehört verboten - Punkt!</p><ul><li>Wenn Städte mir die <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/Dachziegelfarbe" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Dachziegelfarbe</span></a> vorschreiben und die <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/Hauswandfarbe" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Hauswandfarbe</span></a> <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ajHkDzWJR98" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">verbieten</a> können, dann können wir auch Anti-<a href="https://infosec.space/tags/Obdachlose" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Obdachlose</span></a>|n-Bänke verbieten...</li></ul><p>Damit wäre der Gesellschaft weit mehr geholfen als mit <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qUR-PJGGXWM" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">anderen</a> [Bullshit](<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BGGKYtsUdIQ=" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">youtube.com/watch?v=BGGKYtsUdI</span><span class="invisible">Q=</span></a>...</p>
OmbertoAldobrandeschi<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://ard.social/@tagesschau" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>tagesschau</span></a></span> Ihr kommt etwas zu spät. Hättet ihr und andere „Qualitätsmedien“ nicht vorher <a href="https://social.anoxinon.de/tags/bothsideism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>bothsideism</span></a> to the Max betrieben, wäre die faschistisch-klerikale Machtergreifung vielleicht zu verhindern gewesen.<br>Deutschland steht ebenfalls ein Wahlkampf voller rechter Hetze bevor.<br>Werdet ihr da informieren und einordnen - oder weiter jeden Dreck brav zitieren und Lügner wie Spahn, Weidel oder Wagenknecht in Talkshows einladen?</p>
xs4me2<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.online/@originlbookgirl" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>originlbookgirl</span></a></span> </p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/notjournalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>notjournalism</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/bothsideism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>bothsideism</span></a></p>
OmbertoAldobrandeschi<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://ard.social/@tagesschau" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>tagesschau</span></a></span> wenn man nur rechtzeitig über die Gefahr informiert hätte, anstatt <a href="https://social.anoxinon.de/tags/bothsideism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>bothsideism</span></a> und <a href="https://social.anoxinon.de/tags/falsebalance" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>falsebalance</span></a> zu betreiben und damit „alternative Fakten“ zu normalisieren…<br>Dass das Monster Trump als verurteilter Vergewaltiger, als Landesverräter, wiederkehren konnte, ist auch furchtbarem <a href="https://social.anoxinon.de/tags/Medienversagen" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Medienversagen</span></a> geschuldet.<br>Bei AfD und BSW werden dieselben Fehler gemacht, wenn z.B. im Brennpunkt zum Ampel-Aus die Grünen geghostet werden, Alice Weidel aber live lügen und hetzen darf.</p>
dadamsda<p><a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Bothsideism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Bothsideism</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://www.volksverpetzer.de/aktuelles/bothsideism-demokratie-retten/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">volksverpetzer.de/aktuelles/bo</span><span class="invisible">thsideism-demokratie-retten/</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Demokratie" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Demokratie</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Medien" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Medien</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Journalismus" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Journalismus</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Pr%C3%A4faschismus" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Präfaschismus</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Rechtsruck" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Rechtsruck</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Neorechts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Neorechts</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/KrisedesKonservatismus" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>KrisedesKonservatismus</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/FalseBalance" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FalseBalance</span></a></p>
McWabbit 🍋🌻🍉<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@eva_chaos" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>eva_chaos</span></a></span><br><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.world/@DeeGLloyd" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>DeeGLloyd</span></a></span> Did we have an uptick of Russia-loving <a href="https://tenforward.social/tags/vatniks" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>vatniks</span></a> this week or what? The bots with fake global south profiles and poor MS Paint skills, and the <a href="https://tenforward.social/tags/bothsideism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>bothsideism</span></a> <a href="https://tenforward.social/tags/peaceniks" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>peaceniks</span></a> trying to convince their arguments with nonsense?<br>🥱</p>
OmbertoAldobrandeschi<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://ard.social/@tagesschau" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>tagesschau</span></a></span> <a href="https://social.anoxinon.de/tags/bothsideism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>bothsideism</span></a> at its worst.</p>
OmbertoAldobrandeschi<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://ard.social/@tagesschau" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>tagesschau</span></a></span> Da hat Trumps deutscher Pressesprecher, Sebastian Hesse, aber mal ganz kritisch hingeschaut. Schade, dass er bei bewaffnetem Umsturz, Wahlfälschung, Rassismus und Verrat an Russland blind bleibt und <a href="https://social.anoxinon.de/tags/bothsideism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>bothsideism</span></a> betreibt.</p>
OmbertoAldobrandeschi<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://troet.cafe/@Taubeaufdemdach" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>Taubeaufdemdach</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://bewegung.social/@a_watch" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>a_watch</span></a></span> „Berichten“ reicht nicht.<br>Wir erleben gerade, dass Merz Trumps fatales Konzept wiederholt, mit Lügen und Hetze Schlagzeilen zu generieren und zu spalten. „Flooding the zone with shit“ soll den Diskurs verschieben, das Unsagbare salonfähig machen und sachorientierte Debatten verhindern. Seriöse Medien hätten Merz‘ Asylvorschläge als verfassungsfeindlich, rassistisch und praktisch nutzlos enttarnt. Stattdessen wird der Demagoge nur zitiert.<br><a href="https://social.anoxinon.de/tags/falsebalance" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>falsebalance</span></a> <a href="https://social.anoxinon.de/tags/bothsideism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>bothsideism</span></a></p>