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0 pointsivraatiems4y ago0 comments

Why do you trust the YouTube channel more than CNN? What has it done to earn your trust?

Would you trust it more than Fox News? Than Reuters or the AP? How come?

It makes little sense to be intensely skeptical of the quality of news from a large news corporation, even a biased one, and to then uncritically accept the quality of news from a smaller, more anonymous organization.

A Google search for the channel that you linked gives me absolutely nothing that signals to me they are trustworthy, and quite a bit that suggests they are not. How did you find them?

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aaaaaaaaata4y ago· 2 in thread

What has CNN done to earn your trust?

This should be good.

ivraatiemsOP4y ago

I don't think I said I trusted CNN. I asked the parent commenter why they trusted this other source more.

CNN being trustworthy or not doesn't make some random YouTube channel a better source. I'd like to understand how the parent commenter came to recommend this alternative.

DiggyJohnson4y ago

I follow your logic, but are you sympathetic to the notion that an individual might judge an unknown entity with seemingly good content (my personal example: not infantilizing the viewer) may be more trustworthy than a demonstrably untrustworthy entity like CNN.

If your response was to the suggestion to trust this YouTuber it would make sense to me, but this is a rote comparison between a bad actor and an unknown actor. If I believe that CNN is a bad actor, I’ll trust relatively-unknown-but-compelling-content-YouTuber over CNN.

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exabrial4y ago· 2 in thread

CNN and Faux news are both as reliable as the Daily Show for accurate news. All three are comedies.

Question: Did you even watch any of the videos before deciding your opinion?

ivraatiemsOP4y ago

I don't think I need to watch any videos from that channel in order to have the opinion "videos from anonymous YouTube channels are unlikely to be high quality news sources."

Even if I did watch their videos, what would that tell me? In what context should I judge them? Do they cite sources other than their anonymous presenter's own knowledge? Do I have sufficient knowledge to evaluate the sources they give me, if they give me any?

You haven't really answered my question: What has this entity done to earn your trust?

exabrial4y ago

You're embarrassing yourself. It's a presentation of OSINT data.

I would suggest having an informed opinion over a loud one.

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