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The last time I did a check-in on President Trump’s popularity in November, I noted that the decline in his approval ratings had been remarkably linear.

[Edit] Changed link to point to original article instead of Newsweek as suggested (with valid reasons)

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[–] dandelion@lemmy.blahaj.zone 42 points 1 day ago (1 children)

please stop linking to Newsweek:

In November 2022, the Southern Poverty Law Center reported that Newsweek had "taken a marked radical right turn by buoying extremists and promoting authoritarian leaders" since it hired conservative political activist Josh Hammer as editor-at-large. It noted the magazine's elevation of conspiracy theorists, publication of conspiracy theories about COVID-19, views such as support for a ban on all legal immigration to the United States and denying adults access to trans-affirming medical care, and failure to disclose potential conflicts of interest in the content published on Hammer's opinion section and podcast.[108]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newsweek

[–] TheTechnician27@lemmy.world 9 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Oh, the opinion section (which this article is not from) is somehow not even close to the biggest problem with Newsweek.

[–] TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world 26 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I swear to god.. everytime I see

Why It Matters

What To Know

What People Are Saying

I see that article structure, and I know I'm reading something written by AI. Or at least, materially structured and written by AI, and edited by a human.

[–] TheTechnician27@lemmy.world 10 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

I don't know that it's an LLM thing generally speaking. Axios has been using it standardized for a while now, and god I hate it, but I can see it being copied by other outlets as useful to retain the attention of brainrotted readers who lack the discipline to read past the headline. I thought the same thing, though, before I remembered how long Axios has been doing it and that it's probably a reasonably successful format for short-form articles.

[–] speedythefirst@lemmy.zip 17 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Let's stop giving NewsWeek any traffic and instead link to Silver's approval tracker and article . There's much more analysis here than the rag linked above.

[–] francisco_1844@discuss.online 2 points 18 hours ago

Thanks for the links. Updated link to point to original article

[–] Didntdoit71@feddit.online 4 points 1 day ago

The fact that anyone still approves of him at all is the fucking shame of the United States citizen.

[–] Akh@lemmy.world 11 points 1 day ago

Hopefully prison problems and disgorging all his businesses and anyone who profits from him

[–] blitzen@lemmy.ca 8 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Poor title. Silver said “Trump has problems” not his “approval ratings have problems.”

[–] davidgro@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

Yeah I thought the headline was about polling methodology issues.

[–] BigTuffAl@lemmy.zip 4 points 1 day ago

you would think he could somehow... "read"