Mark Zuckerberg: Fact-checking on Meta is too "politically biased"

Re:Mark Zuckerberg: Fact-checking on Meta is too "politicall... by bhouston on Tuesday January 07, 2025 @10:03AM (#42623080)

The Iraq War was pushed by a group calling themselves neoconservatives. They were itching for a war regardless of the WMDs.

Its genesis was at least the mid 1990s per: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Clean_Break:_A_New_Strategy_...

And then this group got more power under Bush's term and 9/11 happened and they responded by pushing for the Iraq war and got it:

https://carnegieendowment.org/research/2003/03/origins-of-re...

https://www.foreignaffairs.com/iraq/what-neocons-got-wrong

The WMDs were a convenient cause belli for the masses, but it was not the motivator for the war. This is why no matter how much doubt was created about the WMDs before the war, and there was tons and tons, there was no stopping it.

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Re:Mark Zuckerberg: Fact-checking on Meta is too "politicall... by Dalewyn on Tuesday January 07, 2025 @10:35AM (#42623455)

>cause belli

At the risk of being that guy, the term you're looking for is casus belli: https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/casus%20belli

You've misspelled it at least twice so far, otherwise I wouldn't be bothering you about it.

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Re:Mark Zuckerberg: Fact-checking on Meta is too "politicall... by bhouston on Tuesday January 07, 2025 @11:55AM (#42624555)

Thanks. I will try to do better. Another issue is that if I type it correctly it gets autocorrected to “cause hello”. So I have to go back and correct it every time.

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Re:Mark Zuckerberg: Fact-checking on Meta is too "politicall... by sixstringtheory on Wednesday January 08, 2025 @12:37AM (#42631291)

Live on the wild side. Turn off the autocorrect.

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