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Re:The Amazon Is Not the Earth’s Lungs by partialrecall on Tuesday September 10, 2019 @11:49AM (#20929504)
> Why does it matter who calls out the falsehood?

Because if Fox News were to call out this particular falsehood, they may very well sum it up with some bullshit like "and that's why liberals are dumb and we should burn more coal." With the Altantic, we instead have reasonable pleas to remember that climate change is a very serious issue.

As for the matter of the given title: https://twitter.com/PeterBrannen1/status/1166446298897289216

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Re:The Amazon Is Not the Earth’s Lungs by ineedasername on Tuesday September 10, 2019 @01:06PM (#20930474)
Hah, yes, good to know it at least wasn't the writer's fault for the headline.

As for who calls out the falsehood, I was thinking more in the vein of "all else being equal", but I suppose you're right and all else wouldn't be equal between the various news sources.

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