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Comment by xnx 4 days ago

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> Social networking platforms are among the most effective tools for mass influence, second only to religion.

Fox News and talk radio demonstrate that isn't true in the US.

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anigbrowl 4 days ago

Just yesterday the US Senate was holding confirmations for Pete Hegseth as Secretary of Defense. For the last 10 years he's been a co-host on a Fox News show.
I suggest making a substantive argument instead of just posting snark.

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xnx 4 days ago

What are the driving platforms behind the American right wing?
Fox News viewers watched 14 hours/week in 2022. The average US Tikok user spends 10.5 hours/week in the app.

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- drawkward 4 days ago
  
  I think that the amount of information one can consume on tiktok in 1 hour is FAR more than the amount of information one can consume on Fox in 24 hours, nevermind the 10.5-to-14 ratio you cite.
  
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  xnx 4 days ago
  
  True. Fox News picks a few storylines for the day/week and emphasizes them over and over: e.g. LA wildfires are the fault of woke liberals, etc.
  
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- ToValueFunfetti 4 days ago
  
  If this is a question that can be answered with user-minutes, it's probably worth factoring in that TikTok has loads more users than Fox News has viewers. I (naturally) can't find a MAU for Fox News, and I can't find a DAU for TikTok, but the apples to oranges comparison is 1.6M daily viewers at Fox to 120M MAU at TikTok, so we're probably talking at least an order of magnitude.
  
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