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Can you imagine how much of "scandal" this would have been if this happened during the last administration?

What makes you think that it wasn't also happening during the last administration?

No one normal cares about youtube video rankings. That's why there wasn't any website like 81m.org site tracking white house youtube videos and hiring bots to downvote them.

It just silly. Regular people who are interested in politics care about actual laws passed, relationships with other nations etc, not some yotube, twitter, fb wars.

This is a scandal regardless of administration. That's why it's on the front page on Hacker News and being written about by major media publications.

you're supposed to just write in all caps "why is the media silent about this" in classic unsubstantiated fashion

I should add, "this would be seen as a much bigger deal and harped on extensively".

Do you think that's hypocritical? Trump and his most visible supporters made provocation and mockery a hallmark of their style, so of course people react more strongly to whatever they do. It would be unrealistic to expect otherwise.

No, I'm talking about sensationalized media coverage. How scandalous something is, is largely a function of how much the news talks about it.

Maybe on twitter.

Otherwise I don't think anyone would care.

It would make the rounds on conservative media[1].

[1]: https://www.foxnews.com/tech/trump-complains-twitter-purged-...

CNNs drop in ratings would beg to differ.

I have no idea what that has to do with an imagined scandal... over youtube down votes... like none.

You said no one would care other than twitter. However cnn made it's money the past four years sensationalizing everything about the previous administration, so that is evidence that people other than twitter care.. CNN's former viewers.

Whatever CNN is, I think it is more than and has existed longer than "made it's money the past four years sensationalizing everything about the previous administration".

Let alone how that ties to its ratings.

You're out in the weeds with these characterizations and connections.

CNNs ratings have dropped precipitously after Trump left office, after rising quite a bit during his time in office. Several accusations against their hosts, such as Maddow, have been met with responses of 'this was exaggeration' in courts of law (an argument judges have accepted).

With that in mind, and keeping in mind CNN is a pretty mainstream news source, it's pretty obvious that a large segment of CNNs viewers did care about such scandals during the previous administration, which means quite a bit of non-tweeters did.

I gotta tell you every post is like a couple opinions and then these connections and assumptions that just don't make sense in any way.

You are comparing breaking treaties, attacking allies, sympathizing with our long time enemies, rolling back regulation, mishandling pandemic to youtube removal of votes?

If this is the biggest thing the right media can sensationalize, I say the current administration is doing pretty damn good.

There is nothing wrong with rolling back regulations.

Current admin jokes about nuking Americans.

But I guess making peace with enemies is worse yeah

Not when enemies are continuing hostile actions toward us.

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