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Re:Parler social network sues Amazon for pulling support by babesh on Tuesday January 12, 2021 @05:31AM (#25744882)
That was not a good time when William Randolph Hearst could help start wars. But the same thing happened in the 90s when the big networks helped start the second Gulf War with fake news about weapons of mass destruction. I, for one, am tired of being fed fake news by those in power.
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Re:Parler social network sues Amazon for pulling support by pjc50 on Tuesday January 12, 2021 @05:46AM (#25745030)
2000s for the second gulf war.

I don't think that was really the newspapers on their own, they were being fed that by US intelligence services. Since there was basically zero ability to check the facts on the ground, they were left relaying lies - that had bipartisan popularity.

> I, for one, am tired of being fed fake news by those in power.

So am I. But the antidote to fake news from those in power is not even more fake news from random cultists and foreign intelligence services.

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