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Can anybody explain the downvotes? Daily Mail is a well-known unreliable source, pretty much a tabloid. The article mentioned it poor, as a matter of fact.

Gibbon1 7y ago
I agree with you people are linking to garbage sources pushing propaganda, misinformation or muddled garbage. What a lot of people are trying to do is execute the classic psychological trick; make the problem go away by finding someone safe to blame. Won't work for SARS-COV2. It doesn't care.
thu2111 7y ago
The Mail Online is constantly dissed in left-leaning forums like this one, but if you just go read the articles and check the claims they're not usually any less accurate than any other news source (this doesn't mean they're very accurate of course, just that other sources are no better). This article consists of some publicly known facts, along with some anonymous sources in the British government's emergency committee (the Cabinet leaks like a sieve so this is entirely plausible). It also cites an academic, some report from Beijing News (whilst noting that the report was retracted) and an academic paper that was uploaded and then deleted. It's written in a pretty neutral tone and explicitly calls out cases where its sources may have issues. The article is no different to the sort of speculation routinely found in Bloomberg, the WSJ, NYT, the Guardian etc. What we're seeing here is just another day in no-platforming land. To the left what is said doesn't matter, who says it is everything. Based on prior experience I'd be willing to bet that virtually none of the people spitting fire over a Daily Mail or National Review link here have even read the articles, let alone rigorously apply the same purported standards to every news link they see posted.
- new_time 7y ago
  Well said. It's a disturbing trend throughout the internet that the Left completely disregards publications that don't follow the accepted narrative. Those individuals and publications that do follow the narrative - very often entities that the public has placed a significant amount of trust in - are all too eager to agree and encourage this sort of delegitimization.

Gibbon1 7y ago

I agree with you people are linking to garbage sources pushing propaganda, misinformation or muddled garbage. What a lot of people are trying to do is execute the classic psychological trick; make the problem go away by finding someone safe to blame. Won't work for SARS-COV2. It doesn't care.

thu2111 7y ago

The Mail Online is constantly dissed in left-leaning forums like this one, but if you just go read the articles and check the claims they're not usually any less accurate than any other news source (this doesn't mean they're very accurate of course, just that other sources are no better). This article consists of some publicly known facts, along with some anonymous sources in the British government's emergency committee (the Cabinet leaks like a sieve so this is entirely plausible). It also cites an academic, some report from Beijing News (whilst noting that the report was retracted) and an academic paper that was uploaded and then deleted. It's written in a pretty neutral tone and explicitly calls out cases where its sources may have issues. The article is no different to the sort of speculation routinely found in Bloomberg, the WSJ, NYT, the Guardian etc. What we're seeing here is just another day in no-platforming land. To the left what is said doesn't matter, who says it is everything. Based on prior experience I'd be willing to bet that virtually none of the people spitting fire over a Daily Mail or National Review link here have even read the articles, let alone rigorously apply the same purported standards to every news link they see posted.

new_time 7y ago
Well said. It's a disturbing trend throughout the internet that the Left completely disregards publications that don't follow the accepted narrative. Those individuals and publications that do follow the narrative - very often entities that the public has placed a significant amount of trust in - are all too eager to agree and encourage this sort of delegitimization.