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Re:Facebook’s Walled Wonderland Is Inherently Incompatible w... by gmac on Monday December 05, 2016 @04:14AM (#13104262)
Isn't it up to the viewer not the publisher to decide what is trustworthy?

That's difficult if the publisher (Facebook) only shows them untrustworthy material, and the viewer is not aware that this is the case.

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Re:Facebook’s Walled Wonderland Is Inherently Incompatible w... by fleitz on Monday December 05, 2016 @04:15AM (#13104266)
If people in China can figure out that the state is lying to them, I'm pretty sure we can figure it out that random sites on the internet aren't trustworthy.

The alt-media links extensively to MSM to point out their lies and inconsistency, I'm sure someone has realized that CNN, and MSNBC, and NYT are a thing.

Even if you're not right wing, you'd probably at some point heard of Noam Chomsky who goes on similar rants about how even highly regarded NYT publishes articles that are pretty much propaganda. And then there's Jason Blair...

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