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nico 5 months ago | parent | context | favorite | on: TikTok goes dark in the US

> NYT, WaPo, etc would disclose whether they had been able to verify the source or authenticity

Oh yeah, like the verification of their stories of the oven babies

If anything, this whole ordeal has shown that all media is at some level censored and controlled by special interests behind the scenes

We’ve been living in a post-truth world for a long time, way before AI

whatshisface 5 months ago [–]

Who lived in a world with no lies, Adam?

nico 5 months ago | [–]

Great point. Ever since we’ve had language, we’ve had lies

My comment just points to the naïveté of thinking that somehow big media are big sources of unbiased truth that we can all trust

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