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Re:Boeing Starliner launches first crewed mission by jay-barronville on Thursday June 06, 2024 @02:19AM (#40594105)
> When this person owns one of the largest communication platforms on Earth and regularly spreads conspiracy theories, disinformation, and transphobia... yes, I would prefer they hide that.

Good thing Elon owns it and not you. One person’s conspiracy theory is another person’s unpopular assessment that later turns out to be correct. I want to hear it all whether you want to or not. There’s a pretty long list of things that are now considered facts but were once fringe conspiracy theories. An easy and recent one is the COVID-19 lab leak theory [0][1a][1b][2] (I could easily post links for hours of all of the “dangerous conservatives” who were called every derogatory name in the book for what turns out was the correct assessment).

And terms like “misinformation” and “disinformation” have completely lost their meaning after watching how they’ve been used as a tool to censor views those applying the labels don’t like…

[0]: https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6...

[1a]: https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2020/02/16/tom-cotto...

[1b]: https://cis.mit.edu/news-media/news/2020/tom-cotton-keeps-re...

[2]: https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2021/05/25/timeline-...

Re:Boeing Starliner launches first crewed mission by mavhc on Thursday June 06, 2024 @02:59AM (#40594371)
There's no lab leak, the lab in question couldn't barely get a virus to replicate, there's no evidence in the rna of the virus that it was engineered, no one in the lab had covid antigens in their bloodstream.

The only thing that does exist is racism

Re:Boeing Starliner launches first crewed mission by jay-barronville on Thursday June 06, 2024 @03:46AM (#40594681)
Sure.