• usernamesAreTricky@lemmy.mlEnglish
      37·
      4 days ago

      Alt National Park Service’s estimate:

      We’re honored to report that over 11 million showed up for today’s No Kings protest, and totals are still coming in. Just… wow. WOW 😮! There’s nothing more to say.

      https://bsky.app/profile/altnps.bsky.social/post/3lrmce3muts2c

      EDIT: also organizers within 50501 estimate at >11 million (50501 is one of the groups involved in the No Kings protests) https://bsky.app/profile/50501movement.bsky.social/post/3lrmozcmqx223

    • Ghostalmedia@lemmy.worldEnglish
      351·
      4 days ago

      Somehow that number started to spread on social media, but no proper news outlet is reporting that.

      That said, the major cities all had crowds that dwarfed Trump’s General Aladeen themed birthday party.

      • pivot_root@lemmy.worldEnglish
        32·
        3 days ago

        no proper news outlet is reporting that.

        And they probably won’t. The best we’ll get is watered-down slop or misreporting that frames the movement as small and unimportant.

        It’s not in the interests of corporate media to accurately report on protests against the Trump administration. It might make some ad money in the short term, but it’s antithetical to the goals of both the owners and the corporations to piss off Trump:

        1. Republicans benefit the wealthy and corporations and they don’t bite the hand that feeds.
        2. The Trump administration has proven itself happy to retaliate against reporters and news agencies by banning them from press events.
        3. The billionaires who own them don’t want to anger the guy they’re buying favors from.

        Edit:

        The AP certainly didn’t choose to publish many photos that show off the actual scale of the protests: https://apnews.com/photo-gallery/no-kings-protest-trump-us-b5de52994b7c592034fb19b7d3e9d577

        This is what they should be showing: https://i.imgur.com/vR41TqH.mp4