The rise of the slopagandist

The convulsive national concern of Minneapolis - and the consequent killings of 2 residents astatine the hands of migration agents - began with a vlog. Nick Shirley, a roving 23-year-old with a smartphone and a sensation for outrage, made a YouTube video with unfounded allegations of fraud astatine daycares operated by the section Somali American community. Like truthful overmuch partisan media successful history, helium was trying to rile up the right-wing base. But helium was besides playing to different audience: the algorithm.

When I wrote astir Shirley successful aboriginal January, I described him arsenic an influencer - a catch-all word that could beryllium applied to a wide scope of people, anyone fro …

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