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I hate Facebook more than most people, but I have to admit that I can believe this.

I noticed that the news always seems to go out of its way to find inhuman-looking badly-tinted photos of him making strange expressions. Lately he's become something of a scapegoat IMO, probably because an introverted billionaire with some creepy tendencies/background makes such an easy target.




It reminds me of what we got from Hilary Clinton in 2016.

Whatever you think of the Clintons, the photos by the articles on the Fox News website or the New York post didn't show a human being.

It'd be an art gallery of photographic stills, to destroy someone's humanity.

A 1/100 second exposure, frozen in time, can make someone resemble something they're not.


This is one of the heuristics I use to judge the trustworthiness of newspapers and magazines: do they choose photos of people that make them look like idiots? If so, their bias may show up in more subtle ways, too. Whatever you think about the possibility of objective journalism, an editor can do better than choosing a demeaning photo of someone they don't like.


It is a well known open secret in the newspaper industry that if you want to make sure they use a bad photo of you, just be a jerk to one of the journalists. They talk to the photographers.


Well, and Facebook kind of hurt the media in a pretty big way with people getting their news from them, and other social media.




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