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Aella
@Aella_Girl
as i've recently gotten to know more public figures, i've become increasingly horrified at the amount of outright lies there are about their lives. the public doesn't give a *shit* about the truth. news outlets and mobs just say blatantly false things, zero fact checking
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Aella
@Aella_Girl
its a creeping uncanny disgust. i *knew* media wasn't trustworthy, but I don't think I realized the *degree*. Some part of me believed that people cared at least a little bit about the truth before they tried to destroy others, but I was wrong. we're no better than lynch mobs.
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Aella
@Aella_Girl
i've only barely begun to taste it happening to me; sometimes i stumble across tweets or forum posts where people confidently say a wrong thing about my life history or beliefs and i'm like ???? how the fuck did you get so confident about something so untrue?
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Aella
@Aella_Girl
if the rest of the world just outright lies about you and believes it and tries to destroy you based on things that aren't true and they refuse to believe any evidence to the contrary, i am *not* surprised some public figures turn bitter or aggressive. it's gotta be a nightmare.
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Tom VanAntwerp 🧙
@tvanantwerp
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@Aella_Girl
The thing that confuses me is how, when many public figures get attacked in the (typically left leaning) media, they start to act full-on right wing—whatever their previous beliefs. I can understand changing their minds about media trustworthiness, but going full on alt-right?
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vitalik.eth
@VitalikButerin
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Maybe creating a social norm that the average thing you hear about a public figure's personal life is a lie is the only way to give public figures some privacy? (Or at least that idea appeals to me personally - privacy infringement is a bigger worry for me than defamation)
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