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It also loses value when the fact-checking suffers from the same biases it is supposedly trying to rectify. One way a govt can circumvent the first amendment,
by lazyeye 2y ago
It also loses value when the fact-checking suffers from the same biases it is supposedly trying to rectify.
One way a govt can circumvent the first amendment, for example, is to fund a grant for "misinformation" research unit at a prestigious university. Where the entire staff are political fellow travellers who, not surprisingly, find everything the govt disagrees with to be "misinformation" and then applies pressure to get it taken down.
- kelipso 2y agoAnd then people figure out that the supposed fact checkers are politically biased and so don’t believe their “facts” anymore. And then people who believe the supposed fact checkers say that people who don’t believe their “facts” are stupid or don’t care about facts. It would have been hilarious to have a Department of Truth though. Every change in administration, everyone in the Department gets replaced by a new set of people dictating a new set of “facts”.