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KickBassColonyDrop t1_ivd7a0c wrote

Social media and mainstream media are both liabilities without the Fairness Doctrine. Claiming one is bad and the other isn't is low intelligence.

You have to look no further than the media rushing to publish "news" about Twitter's layoffs after Musk's acquisition, wherein sources we are widely expected to consider credible ran a story about Rahul Ligma and Daniel Johnson being "fired" from Twitter without any effort to fact check and confirm the veracity of the events transpired. MSNBC, ABC, CNN, etc. All publishing "breaking news" about Ligma Johnson.

Effectively proving that mainstream media engages in minsinformation all the same. The fact that several organizations then, after the fact, proceeded to publicly apologize for the lack of quality checking is damning.

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