The percentage of Americans who say they have a great deal or a fair amount of trust in the mass media has fallen to a record low, according to a new Gallup survey.
Why it matters: Media trust had started to rebound following the 2016 election, but those gains have been wiped out amid growing political partisanship.
The big picture: Media is now the least-trusted civic and political institution surveyed by Gallup.
🗣️Wird bei uns in Europa nicht anders sein: Die Linksextremen glauben an den Scheiss und terrorisieren den Rest, die Libertären und Rechten misstrauen den Massenmedien.🗣️
The percentage of Americans who say they have a great deal or a fair amount of trust in the mass media has fallen to a record low, according to a new Gallup survey.
Why it matters: Media trust had started to rebound following the 2016 election, but those gains have been wiped out amid growing political partisanship.
The big picture: Media is now the least-trusted civic and political institution surveyed by Gallup.
🗣️Wird bei uns in Europa nicht anders sein: Die Linksextremen glauben an den Scheiss und terrorisieren den Rest, die Libertären und Rechten misstrauen den Massenmedien.🗣️
Given the pro-privacy stance of the platform, it’s taken as a given that it’ll be used for a number of reasons, not all of them good. And Telegram has been attached to a fair few scandals related to terrorism, sexual exploitation and crime. Back in 2015, Vox described Telegram as “ISIS’ app of choice,” saying that the platform’s real use is the ability to use channels to distribute material to large groups at once. Telegram has acted to remove public channels affiliated with terrorism, but Pavel Durov reiterated that he had no business snooping on private conversations. He said that since his platform does not have the capacity to check all channels, it may restrict some in Russia and Ukraine "for the duration of the conflict," but then reversed course hours later after many users complained that Telegram was an important source of information. Perpetrators of such fraud use various marketing techniques to attract subscribers on their social media channels. Although some channels have been removed, the curation process is considered opaque and insufficient by analysts. "For Telegram, accountability has always been a problem, which is why it was so popular even before the full-scale war with far-right extremists and terrorists from all over the world," she told AFP from her safe house outside the Ukrainian capital.
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