> The right-wing media ecosystem in particular circulates an overwhelming amount of domestic disinformation and propaganda, and its practices create the greatest vulnerabilities to both foreign propaganda and nihilistic commercial exploitation by clickbait factories.
pp 354:
> The right wing of the American media ecosystem has been a breeding ground for conspiracy theory and disinformation, aand a significant point of vulnerability in our capacity, as a country and a democracy, to resist disinformation and propaganda.
These are a couple of random quotes I bookmarked long ago, but the authors show and back up with data that disinformation and propaganda online is overwhelmingly right-wing.
Is the no in “no, the two are not comparable” no, the destruction is not acceptable or no, there is no propaganda and fomenting of violence from the left?
Folks pretending to be outraged that their (not even local since they don't live in said cities) billion dollar corporate Chili's burned to the ground is really the fakest kind of false equivalence. The answer is no, it is a tired and boring talking point.
There is no equivalence, zero. Folks rioting because they're tired of being repeatedly shot and killed by police (there is no such thing as an organized "antifa" militia, but you already know this too), is in no way shape or form the same thing as the "Jews will not replace us", and trying to overthrow the US Government because they didn't like the outcome of the last election crew.
Is this an acceptable level of damage?