The social media mob is all the media care about

Published September 16, 2022 3:00am ET



We were past due for a fabricated outrage cycle against Chick-fil-A. Thankfully, Twitter excels in creating fabricated outrage cycles.

“Chick-fil-A is under fire for a tweet that social media users said called out a Twitter user’s race,” NBC News reported. Why this was deemed relevant for a major media outlet to report on is anyone’s guess, but it also turns out that the “social media users” being relied on for media content were wrong. Who could have guessed?

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