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Re:Bezos Exerts Control of WaPo Opinion to Focus on Personal... by sickofparadox on Thursday February 27, 2025 @06:48PM (#43199931)
Everything I said was 100% correct, you (and gp) are trying to downplay Germany imprisoning a woman for speaking ill of a gang rapist who was given no jail time.
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Re:Bezos Exerts Control of WaPo Opinion to Focus on Personal... by thomassmith65 on Thursday February 27, 2025 @07:47PM (#43200347)
After reading a closer source (machine-translated), I apologize, especially since the issue is media literacy.

Your comment was near enough to the facts that I was wrong to be a scold.

* https://archive.ph/vml0k German newspaper

* https://skeptics.stackexchange.com/questions/57108 random English discussion of source

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Re:Bezos Exerts Control of WaPo Opinion to Focus on Personal... by hitekker on Saturday March 01, 2025 @01:57AM (#43216675)
Thanks for backing this up with more evidence. It's a graceful move to acknowledge a mistake.

I also thought the GP was just throwing fire. But after reading more into the matter, I'm a little too disgusted to dig anymore.

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