Why the Nelk Boys fucked up massively with their Netanyahu interview

[Carl-Richard]

For context, this happened:

 

 

You know how the Nelk Boys claim "it's ok to have Netanyahu on without asking tough questions because we'll just have Bassem on later to represent the other side"? It's not ok.

Not all people will watch both videos. And even if they do, the first video can experience a "primacy effect" where it traps people such that they won't be trapped as easily by the other video. If you were convinced by Netanyahu, got trapped in his "net", it will be disproportionally harder to trap you in the other net (Bassem's net).

And the Netanyahu's video will naturally have more views, because it's Netanyahu, the most notorious man in the news at the moment second only to Trump, while basically nobody, certainly not airheads, have heard about Bassem.

And people being trapped is not just possible but likely if the Nelk Boys' own knowledge is any indicator of their audience's knowledge, as you have no prior knowledge to counter it; the video is probably the only real engagement you've had with the topic; re-affirm that with TikTok attention spans.

Even if it the first video isn't favored any more than the second, it creates division and more misinformation, because your channel is now a propaganda billboard where you trap people in different nets and they don't get challenged.

"Nelk boys", more like "net boys".

Also, we don't even have to think in terms of individual naive people getting trapped or not trapped (either/or) but simply as quantitative "regressors" (more graded) in that when you present a position in a strong and unchallenged propaganda format, you will increase the view of that position as strong and unchallenged in the space of ideas, and this affects people and how they think; if not making them flip decisively to one position immediately, it could tilt an overall mass of people ever so slightly in your favor. And that's exactly why any propaganda win is a win and why Netanyahu won regardless of what happened on that podcast (it would take a different type of podcast for him to lose, and he would probably not have attended that).

Edited Wednesday at 03:55 AM by Carl-Richard

[Husseinisdoingfine]

Already beat ya to it.

 

[Carl-Richard]

13 hours ago, Husseinisdoingfine said:

Already beat ya to it.

 

I don't care. I tried looking for it but I didn't find it.

You gotta stop hugging topics immediately after they hit the news only to get your name on top. It's embarrassing.

Edited Wednesday at 04:28 AM by Carl-Richard