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Re:YouTube Bans Alex Jones, Following Facebook's and Apple's... by lovehashbrowns on Monday August 06, 2018 @06:38PM (#17702393)
> because the mainstream news websites like CNN and even sections of the NYT became more Jones-like in their reporting

What an amazing claim! Surely you have examples of this? I'd love to read conspiracy theories coming from CNN or NYT that are in line with something as absurd as "Michelle Obama is actually a man" or "Sandy Hook was fake" or the absolutely insane birther movement.

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Re:YouTube Bans Alex Jones, Following Facebook's and Apple's... by malvosenior on Tuesday August 07, 2018 @11:09AM (#17707291)
NYT: "You can't be racist against white people".

There you go.

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Re:YouTube Bans Alex Jones, Following Facebook's and Apple's... by lovehashbrowns on Tuesday August 07, 2018 @03:37PM (#17709847)
Can you link some context?
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Re:YouTube Bans Alex Jones, Following Facebook's and Apple's... by malvosenior on Tuesday August 07, 2018 @05:21PM (#17710927)
Sure: https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2018/08/sarah-jeong-shou...
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Re:YouTube Bans Alex Jones, Following Facebook's and Apple's... by _Tev on Wednesday August 08, 2018 @11:06AM (#17716533)
What about "Trump is Russian puppet."

I hate the guy and he does sorround himself with scumbags, but this implied narrative sounds like fairly generic conspiracy. "Scandals" like Cambridge Analytica "confirming" this just underline the conspiracy tone.

Maybe it's just people reading NYT, maybe I'm misreading the implications, but imo the GP's claim is not that outlandish.

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