Both the right-wing and the truth-agnostic left agree that accurate coverage of the lab-leak theory helps Trump. They're both wrong.https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2021/06/lindsey-graham-lab-leak-hannity-trump-china-coronavirus-media.html …
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Replying to @jonathanchait
I think this specific point is oddly but deeply naive about how Republican propaganda works, and the gravitational pull it has on mainstream media.
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I'm not going to try to respond to this in a tweet. I wrote a whole argument about why the best response to lies is truth, not other lieshttps://nymag.com/intelligencer/2021/06/lindsey-graham-lab-leak-hannity-trump-china-coronavirus-media.html …
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Framing this as "truth" versus "lies" is a bad way to understand the complexity of weighing competing unproven theories in an environment where powerful political interests are muddying the water by conflating pure speculation with reasonable hypotheses.
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