>Infowars has more often than not been right on important matters.

Would you mind providing a list of those things it's been right on?

Gay frogs :D (although they claim this is a government plot, rather than the US gov refusing to ban use of certain chemicals at the behest of farmers)

Yes, that's the unfortunate problem. They often bring up issues and questions that won't be discussed anywhere else. Then ruin it by throwing in some heavy conspiracy without any supporting evidence.

> Infowars has more often than not been right on important matters

I agree with the spirit of your comment, except this bit steps over the line and ruins the whole thing.

The thing about Infowars is they are close a random noise generator. They can't help but be right on some things, as anything random is bound to do.

By contrast, the MSM is a structured but biased source. Their narratives will tend to align with reality quite well, only getting a few facts wrong here and there, due to internal processes that filter out the inconvenient facts.

So, it's true that already having to apply critical thinking, it's actually easier to sift through Infowars's crap, as most of it is blatant garbage that can be easily discarded - whereas the MSM you'll hear the same exact message from multiple sources, and have a much harder time picking out the little bit of actively harmful garbage. But this doesn't mean that you can point to randomness and say it has any sort of predictive power.

(Of course, my comment here is certainly not condoning the growing centralized censorship touched on in the original article. We've been destined for this slow motion trainwreck ever since the term AJAX was coined, and it's looking like we need to abandon centralized communication platforms ASAFP!)

Nice try Alex.