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So we should take everything at face value and only investigate later, if at all?
by minikites 5y ago
So we should take everything at face value and only investigate later, if at all?
- nickff 5y agoI think skepticism should vary, and we should be quicker to verify than dismiss. This post made a specific, verifiable claim; I find that most misleading articles are vague and impossible to verify, or omit any context.
- minikites 5y agoI agree, but I think there's another aspect to this. The way many news sources with an agenda operate is by mixing news and opinion (vague, impossible to verify, sometimes omit context, but grounded in reality). Where it starts to cross the line into propaganda is when news is mixed with misleading falsehoods and an active attempt to manipulate context. An individual associated with InfoWars should be viewed with a large amount of skepticism.