Karen Hunter and guest host Roderick Morrow used a recent SiriusXM Urban View broadcast to criticize political media coverage and warn that social media accounts posing as Black Americans are driving division and misinformation.
Morrow said cable news devotes outsized attention to Black voters while overlooking voting patterns among white men. “Eighty percent of Black men, 92% of Black women, get out of our faces. Period,” he said. “Why are we spending so much time on the Black vote? Can we have a white vote hour? They’re literally tipping the scales.”
He argued that different groups are treated unequally when discussing turnout. “When white people don’t vote, it’s a working-class economic issue. When we don’t vote, it’s every stereotype,” Morrow said. “That’s not OK.”
Hunter agreed and shifted the discussion to online manipulation. She said social media platforms amplify manufactured conflicts that do not match what she sees in everyday life. “That division that I see in certain social media spaces, I’m unfamiliar with it in reality,” she said. “All I see are men and women hanging out. There’s no conflict.”
Hunter introduced a clip claiming a recent X, formerly Twitter, update exposed that many accounts spreading anti-Black messages and gender conflict were based outside the U.S. According to the clip, pages posing as Black Americans were operating from India and other parts of Asia and shaping political conversations through rage bait.
“They were leading narratives, creating fake diaspora beefs, starting gender wars, and spreading misinformation,” the clip said. “They’re literally weaponizing Blackness.”
Morrow said the pattern reflects long-standing efforts to exploit Black political influence. “They always come to us because they know we’re fighting for ourselves,” he said. “I’m not trying to be under another master because you’re offering something.” Both pointed to earlier reports that social media companies studied users’ emotions to increase engagement. “That should have been a wake-up call,” Morrow said. “This is not just a mirror. It’s someone on the other side studying you.”
Hunter urged listeners to approach online content with caution. “If you’re going to be on these platforms, don’t think it’s all good,” she said. “It’s not all good.”
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