Killing for Content

The Trump administration cares more about clicks and content than human life.

If you’re online enough (or know someone who is), you’ve probably heard the phrase “everything is content.” What is content, you might ask? Well, let’s take a look at Urban Dictionary:

“content: the shit that people post online for maximum views”

We can work with this.

Content is meant to be seen. Content involves spectacle. You watch it, you riff off of it with your friends, and if you don’t tune in, you’re missing out. Content is also something that goes away and you forget about when you put your phone away.

The second Trump administration is almost entirely staffed by content creators who want to make content, and they are expending your taxpayer dollars as well as the international reputation of the United States of America to do it.

I get that this all sounds absurd—that’s par for the course with the Trump administration—but go take a look at who some of these Cabinet heads are and what their professional backgrounds are. …

Continue reading this article by Samuel Nagahisa, “Killing for Content,” here: https://www.liberalcurrents.com/killing-for-content/