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oyster  ·  2845 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Reddit mods are so terrible, they are making national news.

Ya I could have been more clear, that's an example where they could actually go to Reddit and find more information than what was on the mainstream news sites. For mass shootings though ? That's gonna be all over the news and Reddit will mainly be posts linking to said articles.





Deltron_0  ·  2843 days ago  ·  link  ·  

It all depends on the scale, and location in real life. If it is a big enough event, in which more can be shared via the people, or in a location where the people are driven to communicate what they're experiencing - that it provides news greater in perspective than what a selection of biased companies can give, it will happen. Unless you live in North Korea.

jadedog  ·  2843 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Yes. In this case, one of the benefits of news being shared on a large platform was that there were people sharing about the needs of the blood donation centers in real time. Since there were people right there, they could share with a wider audience about how people could help in the crisis.

One of the huge criticisms in that debacle was that some of those helpful posts were deleted in the midst of everything else going on.

However, when it's working the way it should, there can be benefits to getting information from a large platform where people can share their experiences of an event with people who are actually there in real time.