The Guardian’s ‘Today in Focus’ podcast has been in full pearl-clutching mode this week over the rise of new media. Yesterday host Helen Pidd invited Dr. Robert Topinka from Birkbeck University to moan about how online influencers are shaping the news agenda more effectively than the legacy press. Shock…
Pointing to X account Max Tempers for coining the term ‘Boriswave’, they said mass slogans now spread “from X in places like 4chan” until “slightly more legitimate publications can then pick it up.” They lamented:
“The right seem to be so much better at social media… [there are] extremely online people who spend their days posting and engaging in info wars… trying to get reactions out of their enemies… to own the libs, to mock the mainstream.”
The hand-wringing ended with the declaration that phrases or information arising online must have “the context explained and critiqued,” otherwise that information “will continue to see mainstream conversation.” Should have kept that X account…
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