Trace Underwood looks like a douchebag here with his tone-deaf narrative.
Women have their rights trampled upon in Texas, but let's focus on the "internet troublemakers" who draw attention to this situation using satire?
Trolls convinced journalists they were “abortion bounty hunters”
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Re: Trolls convinced journalists they were “abortion bounty hunters”
#22I know a common tactic these days is to claim “Major Outrage from x Community” and then source said outrage from a few random tweets. It’s yellow journalism, really, and I wouldn’t be surprised if some of the less ethically constrained journalists were anonymously behind those tweets in order to hit their 5pm deadlines.
>yellow journalism
Coming soon: A biting expose on racist tech bros on ycombinator...
Re: Trolls convinced journalists they were “abortion bounty hunters”
#23Someone taken in by the ruse, on being told it was a ruse...
> “It may be a lie, but the fact I believed it speaks volumes about my enemies, and not me”
... that's pretty much the zeitgeist of our times. (By which I mean, people who are on Twitter and Facebook) facepalm
Re: Trolls convinced journalists they were “abortion bounty hunters”
#24I mean honestly, MSM: what are the odds an actual group of bona fide Texans takes the time to create a forum to help each other collect their $10,000 abortion bounties over the next few months?
Seriously, what are the goddamned odds? I'm completely illiterate when it comes to statistics.
Irregardless, I do know I'd bet anything the odds are infinitesimally low given the poor track record of the MSM.
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#25Earlier quoted context omitted.
If you have to rely on a news source’s veracity, I would not rely on the veracity of Vice and Business Insider, to put it mildly. And “New York Times bestselling author” is a marketing blurb, not a reputation for reporting the truth.
I’ve never once seen a worthwhile article come out of Business Insider and yet yours is the first negative opinion I’ve ever seen expressed about it. Maybe because most don’t click inside to know that the titles are invariably clickbait compared to the actual bulk of the article? I don’t know.
> I’ve never once seen a worthwhile article come out of Business Insider and yet yours is the first negative opinion I’ve ever seen expressed about it
What? Business Insider has always been known as a low-value clickbait website AFAIK. Maybe people don't talk about it much because it's assumed?
Re: Trolls convinced journalists they were “abortion bounty hunters”
#26Someone taken in by the ruse, on being told it was a ruse... > “It may be a lie, but the fact I believed it speaks volumes about my enemies, and not me” ... that's pretty much the zeitgeist of our times. (By which I mean, people who are on Twitter and Facebook) facepalm
I believe that tweet was intended as comedy.
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#27something something death of research. Too Good To Check: A Play In Three Acts: https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/too-good-to-check-a-pl...
The last line of that article just killed me. The whole thing was a mind bender but that last line was a serious one!
Re: Trolls convinced journalists they were “abortion bounty hunters”
#28Trace Underwood looks like a douchebag here with his tone-deaf narrative. Women have their rights trampled upon in Texas, but let's focus on the "internet troublemakers" who draw attention to this situation using satire?
There's been plenty of discussion on the Texas law, as indeed there has been on trans issues and the other bait they use. I'm much more interested in focusing on stories nobody else is covering, and "a bunch of low-effort trolls convince hundreds of thousands that people are gathering on reddit to plan bounty hunting" is a fascinating story that nobody was covering. Sorry it wasn't to your liking, but it's a story I think people should hear.
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#29Oh hey, cool to see my article here. If anyone has questions or wants further details on anything, I'm happy to stick around this thread for a bit. I've paid altogether too much attention to this saga; glad it's going to some use.
Re: Trolls convinced journalists they were “abortion bounty hunters”
#30I mean honestly, MSM: what are the odds an actual group of bona fide Texans takes the time to create a forum to help each other collect their $10,000 abortion bounties over the next few months? Seriously, what are the goddamned odds? I'm completely illiterate when it comes to statistics. Irregardless, I do know I'd bet anything the odds are infinitesimally low given the poor track record of the MSM.
Iirc there was an actual tip line, so nonzero. The content was very obvious satire though