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Happy Birthday, Dickhead. (infosec.pub)
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[–] barkingspiders 36 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Where the hell did that 11M number come from?

[–] Ghostalmedia@lemmy.world 33 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Somehow that number started to spread on social media, but no proper news outlet is reporting that.

That said, the major cities all had crowds that dwarfed Trump’s General Aladeen themed birthday party.

[–] pivot_root@lemmy.world 31 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

no proper news outlet is reporting that.

And they probably won't. The best we'll get is watered-down slop or misreporting that frames the movement as small and unimportant.

It's not in the interests of corporate media to accurately report on protests against the Trump administration. It might make some ad money in the short term, but it's antithetical to the goals of both the owners and the corporations to piss off Trump:

  1. Republicans benefit the wealthy and corporations and they don't bite the hand that feeds.
  2. The Trump administration has proven itself happy to retaliate against reporters and news agencies by banning them from press events.
  3. The billionaires who own them don't want to anger the guy they're buying favors from.

Edit:

The AP certainly didn't choose to publish many photos that show off the actual scale of the protests: https://apnews.com/photo-gallery/no-kings-protest-trump-us-b5de52994b7c592034fb19b7d3e9d577

This is what they should be showing: https://i.imgur.com/vR41TqH.mp4

[–] some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 9 points 1 month ago

It’s probably made up. But I can see it as probable.

[–] Glytch@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

I first saw it from the Alt National Parks Service Facebook account.