Not only has the US president declared the press the "enemy of the people", he also has a personal vendetta against Jeff Bezos for hurting his feelings. And he's got a personal lackey doing his personal bidding at the head of the DOJ.

If anything, it's more plausible to have been directed by the President (though it probably wasn't) than for any consequences of these actions to come from this administration (which certainly won't happen).

Is that news? It’s well known that MBS is plugging money into tech in order to move away from fossil fuels.

You’re not going to get any investment from Saudi Arabia that doesn’t go through him.

Everyone needs to know that every Softbank round is essentially a Saudi Arabia round.

It’s unlikely any money you take as a founder these days is free from Saudi limited partners

This is why greed is bad.

I thought it was common knowledge... Masa is pretty much MBS's agent.

When a foreign government does something, the legal system is not the appropriate mechanism to enforce international norms.

It lacks both jurisdiction as well as enforceability.

There is no global legal system. We are not a united planet.

You do have a point here, but it doesn’t hold up when the DOJ has such an extensive history of going after other state sponsored hacking.

The DOJ goes after operatives and individuals - not heads of state or states themselves.

According to this story MBS is an operative. If heads of state decide to become operatives, perhaps they should lose any protections that might normally be afforded to them.

Which is it? Is "fake news" a dangerous sentiment, or do journalists actually get the facts wrong more often than they get them right?

Do journalists try to get the facts correct? When they get them wrong, do they issue retractions? Or do they not?

Do you think you can draw an equivalency between their accuracy and the President's relationship with the truth?

This is not the same as saying "TV is bad for you, mmkay?" This is about actual journalism, which may take place in newspapers or on television.

You're treading on dangerous false equivalency here. I get that it's hip to say "the mainstream media gets it wrong all the time, amirite" in lieu of having an actual nuanced opinion, but I certainly don't think it's remotely accurate.

lugenpresse means "lying press" and is equivalent to "fake news"

> ive never even heard that word before

I'm not sure an argument from ignorance is the best logical fallacy to defend Trump