For years, disinfo merchants exploited a loophole whereby straight news declined to call lies “lies.” But now best practices for straight news include calling out lies whenever they are repeated. Professional standards have evolved.https://twitter.com/robbysoave/status/1499520827246759936 …
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The standard of not knowingly reporting false statements (or acknowledging they are false) is not hard to understand. Newspapers somehow do this all the time, including issuing corrections and employing fact checkers without bong rip musings about what is a fact.
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There’s also the issue of purporting to be journalism, indeed “straight news” to use Robbie’s parlance.
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I would like to see YouTube crack down on health misinformation, too, but it’s gotta start somewhere and incredibly consequential and politically toxic lies like Trump’s election conspiracies are a logical place to start.
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Oh my. Checks out that he said it unequivocally, except that when confronted, Peterson said it was <paraphrase> dream-like speculation.
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