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Re:The account of realDonaldTrump will be locked for 12 hours by jandrese on Thursday January 07, 2021 @01:43AM (#25667977)
The Hunter Biden laptop story was declared bullshit before it was released because the guy who provided it shipped it around to several news outlets including Fox News who initially passed because even their underused fact checking department saw that the entire story fell apart under the lightest of scrutiny.

It does not serve society's interest to have blatant falsehoods broadcast as news.

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Re:The account of realDonaldTrump will be locked for 12 hours by zpeti on Thursday January 07, 2021 @02:59AM (#25668482)
You’re saying that like the other side hasn’t had to endure the entire Russian conspiracy thing (Steele dossier) for years, which has been thoroughly discredited. It was shared widely and I haven’t seen any mainstream coverage when it got discredited.

If you want to hold social media to certain standards, it should be across the board, not when your side benefits.

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Re:The account of realDonaldTrump will be locked for 12 hours by FrozenVoid on Thursday January 07, 2021 @03:04AM (#25668515)
> It does not serve society's interest to have blatant falsehoods broadcast as news. Censoring it does exactly the opposite: https://github.com/FrozenVoid/Philosophy-DB/tree/main/Digita...
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