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You can always move the goalposts for "false". The major media outlets engage in misleading stuff like that all the time. Did you see NBC's post-debate fact ch
by aaron-lebo 10y ago
You can always move the goalposts for "false". The major media outlets engage in misleading stuff like that all the time.
Did you see NBC's post-debate fact check?
Trump said Clinton “acid washed” her private email server. She didn’t. She used an app called Bleachbit, not a corrosive chemical.
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http://heavy.com/news/2016/10/nbc-fact-check-trump-clinton-acid-wash-bleachbit-conspiracy-mainstream-media-lie/ http://heavy.com/news/2016/10/nbc-fact-check-trump-clinton-a...
(I don't know how good this site is, it was just the first Google result).
The end result (as well as this is meant), is that news and media organizations now effectively need a government stamp of approval.
You can see where that could go wrong. Funny it should happen in Germany of all places...
Even worse, citizens are incentivized to disregard critical thinking. Oh, this hasn't been banned...it must be true.
- Karunamon 10y agoIf only Germany would have the same allergic reaction to power consolidation that it has to anything resembling Nazis.