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Your future laid bare ...

Just reading an article on NPR News... Below are two paragraphs lifted from said article where right wingers equate fact checking with censorship...

If Trump wins, this is your future... Good luck!

The Stanford Internet Observatory, a prominent research group at Stanford University studying how social media platforms are abused, has lost its top leadership and faces an uncertain future amid a sustained right-wing campaign targeting the study of online falsehoods.

Ohio, who has spearheaded efforts to discredit researchers through his chairmanship of the House Judiciary Committee, posted on X on Friday: "Free speech wins again!" and accused SIO of being part of "the censorship regime."

Full article here if interested
https://www.npr.org/2024/06/14/g-s1-4570/a-major-disinformation-research-teams-future-is-uncertain-after-political-attacks
Patriot96 · 56-60, C
NPR is a left wing schill. Can not take anything they publish with semblance of truth
justanothername · 51-55, M
@Patriot96 Truth.
justanothername · 51-55, M
@Convivial In Patriot96s world Women are rarely seen and never heard and when they do talk it’s completely normal to ignore them or ridicule anything they say.
Patriot96 · 56-60, C
@justanothername and you knowbthis HOW?
Theyitis · 36-40, M
I generally appreciate the work of the fact checkers; that said, do you think it makes much difference whether or not social media sites are allowed to remove or at least fact check fake news? I read somewhere recently a suggestion that misinformation doesn’t matter much because it doesn’t actually fool a significant number of people anyway. In this polarized era of hyper partisanship everyone just believes whatever they want to believe.
Convivial · 26-30, F
@Theyitis unfortunately true... But just imagine where e will be in 5 years with no facts that can be believed
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Theyitis · 36-40, M
@Convivial I read an article that suggested some solutions that seemed sensible to me, but I don’t know if the article will get enough attention for the solutions to be seriously considered by the people most able to implement them. I think the author, Jonathan Haidt, writes a lot of good stuff. Here it is: https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2022/05/social-media-democracy-trust-babel/629369/
whowasthatmaskedman · 70-79, M
Let me start by saying I agree with you completely.
But Biden has had almost a full term now and frankly the progress in bringing an obvious criminal to justice or rebalancing a rabid Right Supreme court has been disappointing at best.
Do you sincerely believe that voting against Trump is going to make any real difference to Americas future. Particularly in light of his likely loss being challenged all the way up to that same court??😷
Convivial · 26-30, F
@whowasthatmaskedman i do... And the reason justice is slow in this case is Trump has the money and backing to fight every step of the way
Patriot96 · 56-60, C
Even there own former editor admitted that npr slants the truth
Convivial · 26-30, F
@Patriot96 still the article details what is happening
LordShadowfire · 46-50, M
Imagine if you will. A society in which facts are considered irrelevant, and fact checkers are condemned as censors. Such a society seems backwards and crazy... But it's perfectly normal in...

THE
MAGA
ZONE
Ynotisay · M
@LordShadowfire Nice. 👍
JimBeam · M
Dump npr. Why is it needed?
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Convivial · 26-30, F
@Ynotisay unfortunately it's very real

 
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