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Re:Twitter to lay off 25% of workforce in first round of job... by photochemsyn on Monday October 31, 2022 @10:59AM (#33406707)
It's not that they don't align with my political stance, it's that they don't do their job of providing broad-spectrum information on the actions of governments and corporations. To emphasize, Top Secret America was an outstanding expose of the military-intelligence contracting system, but that was before Bezos got his ~600 million CIA web services contract, and soon after that he spent what, ~$250 million to buy the Post, after which that kind of investigative journalism was eliminated.

However, your point is pretty valid - back in 2002, the WaPo regurgitated US government talking points on (non-existent) Iraq WMDs without bothering to do any investigative pushback.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/2002/10/11/c...

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Re:Twitter to lay off 25% of workforce in first round of job... by gamblor956 on Monday October 31, 2022 @02:43PM (#33410616)
They literally have a section of the website dedicated to investigative journalism, including a number of recent investigations into government contractors, military officials, government corruption (all of these in October 2022!). Going back more over the past 6 months, you have investigations into police brutality, election integrity units, more coverage of government contractors and corruption, police corruption, and lawmaker self-dealing.

What more are you expecting from them?

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