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I have a similar reaction to any website that calls itself "truth(whatever)", "fact(whatever)", or anything along those lines. So far, every time I've investig
by Turing_Machine 9y ago
I have a similar reaction to any website that calls itself "truth(whatever)", "fact(whatever)", or anything along those lines.
So far, every time I've investigated it, my suspicion has been justified.
Of course, the grandaddy of them all was Pravda.
- diminish 9y agoAnd the Don't be evil mantra. We've ended up with a search engine which returns ads in 85% of clickable screen asset and soon may start to mix paid and organic search and we're ready for it.
- simonh 9y agoSomeone used to publish a slim English language edition of Pravda in the early 80s. I wish I'd kept some, but it seemed like the cold war was going to last forever back then, I'd never known anything different. Also the Guardian used to occasionally publish an article selected from a foreign newspaper, not sure if they still do. The North Korean ones were hilarious. Probably still would be. Just goes to show real thoroughgoing, unremitting brutality sometimes does work.
- dilemma 9y agoWhat's your take in the Democratic Party?