• @Default_Defect@midwest.social
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    -291 year ago

    If it weren’t for twitter, i wouldn’t have even known there was another attempt on Trump. I don’t sort Lemmy by new and there was nothing in the top posts about it (that I saw, at least) until HOURS after it happened. None of the other social media sites I use showed anything for a while either.

    • @ayyy@sh.itjust.works
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      461 year ago

      What did you gain by knowing unconfirmed information a few hours earlier? Did you need to act on that “information” that quickly?

    • @14th_cylon@lemm.ee
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      281 year ago

      You might consider reading some real news, vetted and produced by professional journalists. Twitter is not news source, neither is Reddit.

      • @Default_Defect@midwest.social
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        -11 year ago

        I typically do, twitter happened to be the first place I saw any information about it, nothing else tipped me off about it happening until then.

    • AFK BRB Chocolate
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      241 year ago

      You could simply open a news site a couple times a day. They all had the assassination attempt up pretty quickly.

        • AFK BRB Chocolate
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          51 year ago

          I didn’t know it happened either, but I check the news a couple times a day to see if anything happened.

          It seems like you’re being disingenuous. You said you need Twitter to find out about things like the assassination attempt, so obviously you check Twitter, but the concept of checking the news is apparently strange to you.

        • @SoGrumpy@lemmy.ml
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          41 year ago

          He didn’t mean to check if there had been an attempt to eradicate Trump specifically, he meant open a news app occasionally, as one does a social media app.

    • @aalvare2@lemmy.world
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      171 year ago

      “Don’t believe initial reporting about any dramatic event. The rush to be first often overrides the responsibility to try to be correct. As with any event like this, some of this information is likely to change as more information becomes available.”

      https://youtu.be/sgpYzFTtJug?feature=shared

      In any case, I heard about the attempt shortly after I started scrolling through lemmy last night, so from my pov the information had gotten to me in a timely manner.

    • @ripcord@lemmy.world
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      81 year ago

      I knew here within 30 minutes. Also on Bluesky. Also on any major news source.

      If you’re not finding the stuff I think that’s on your