the reporting on these two events has been really shoddy and is a great example of how the entire media landscape has become a disinformation hellhole in the past 10-15 years.
With no signs of slowing and no real solutions.
How do you solve the issue that people believe their biases and their social/parasocial relationships more than facts and analysis? That they trust swiftly delivered bullshit rather than slower but more accurate information?
How do you correct for first-speaker bias?
I don't have the answers.