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Re:Mark Zuckerberg: Fact-checking on Meta is too "politicall... by bamboozled on Wednesday January 08, 2025 @07:39AM (#42633547)
Reading your comment, could we use another word here, beliefs?

If so then I'm not really against people having their own beliefs, except beliefs aren't facts and they can become extremely harmful, especially at scale, even to those holding onto the beliefs.

I guess you've heard about the Jonestown massacre, for example?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonestown

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Re:Mark Zuckerberg: Fact-checking on Meta is too "politicall... by Dalewyn on Wednesday January 08, 2025 @01:33PM (#42637058)
>Reading your comment, could we use another word here, beliefs?

Doesn't really matter, ultimately certain people want to enforce the notion that there is One True Truth/Belief/Opinion/Narrative/"Fact" and any heretics must be burned at the stake.

I like and appreciate a free society, so I am decisively against such notions.

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