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Re:Want to Stop Fake News? Pay for the Real Thing by sputr on Friday February 01, 2019 @04:42AM (#19052840)
Including "the other side" on such issues is only a problem if you include them uncritically. But that requires a debate, not just airing of opinions as most news is nowadays. Censorship of ideas only makes them grow stronger. Look at antivax - what we needed was a complete and repeated dismantling of their ideas in the mass media BEFORE it became a problem so that people would been vaccinated (in this case with knowledge) against the well-sounding and emotionally compelling arguments of the antivax movement.

So, no, we don't need balanced news. But we need critically inclusive news.

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