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Re:Google, Apple remove Navalny app from stores as Russian e... by blacktriangle on Friday September 17, 2021 @11:59AM (#28567005)
Where does the US MSM and social media refusing to cover anything about Hunter Biden put us?
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Re:Google, Apple remove Navalny app from stores as Russian e... by 8note on Friday September 17, 2021 @01:50PM (#28568606)
US MSM did cover hunter Biden extensively. Fox and other right wing propaganda stations are still a part of the MSM.

Mind you, every other station covered it heavily too. The sitting president was impeached over the hunter Biden story

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Re:Google, Apple remove Navalny app from stores as Russian e... by tablespoon on Friday September 17, 2021 @12:10PM (#28567167)
> Where does the US MSM and social media refusing to cover anything about Hunter Biden put us?

I'm not a huge fan of Joe Biden (as you can probably infer from my comments here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28550896), but the Hunter Biden stuff was a shameless distraction with no real substance.

So to answer your question: if the US MSM and social media was required to run smears of a sitting president against his opponent, the US would be far closer to being a sham democracy.

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Re:Google, Apple remove Navalny app from stores as Russian e... by yanderekko on Friday September 17, 2021 @12:54PM (#28567760)
>but the Hunter Biden stuff was a shameless distraction with no real substance.

Uh, that's really not a strong affirmative justification for taking active measures to stop people from using your platform to share a story. And of course the real problem is not simply that the story was suppressed, but that we all know that media platforms do not in fact have a blanket policy against reporting on "shameless distractions with no real substance", and that this sort of post-hoc rationalizing of obvious partisan bias is intellectually insulting.

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Re:Google, Apple remove Navalny app from stores as Russian e... by fsociety on Friday September 17, 2021 @01:47PM (#28568559)
They do have policies against spreading misinformation.
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Re:Google, Apple remove Navalny app from stores as Russian e... by yanderekko on Saturday September 18, 2021 @11:21AM (#28576931)
Yes, and those policies are not evenly applied. That's the issue. iirc Twitter caught some flak for initially justifying the suppression of the story based on the fact that it had come from "hacking" the laptop, and then only let up after it was pointed out that there were many other examples of stories like this that were not suppressed.
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Re:Google, Apple remove Navalny app from stores as Russian e... by blacktriangle on Friday September 17, 2021 @02:16PM (#28568990)
A presidential candidates crackhead son laundering payoffs from foreign governments is a distraction?
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Re:Google, Apple remove Navalny app from stores as Russian e... by User23 on Friday September 17, 2021 @12:10PM (#28567176)
In our case the sham is that the MSM is independent from the political powers. It’s quite elegant really. And regardless of how transparent it is, roughly half the population will reliably believe the MSM is somehow impartial, because it tells them so.

Cognitive dissonance is a hell of a drug.

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