• octopus_ink@lemmy.ml
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    6 months ago

    “Fact-checking” is preserving a certain model of censorship and propaganda. “No fact-checking” is moving to a new model of censorship and propaganda.

    Dude, facts are facts or they are not. There is no rejection of fact checking that will result in more truths being exposed to the world, only less.

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      6 months ago

      You give authority to define “facts” to a fact checking institution. That institution may not be sufficiently independent. Because of meddling the institution spreads lies under the claim they would be facts and declares actual facts as lies.

      Just think about a fact checking under the authority of Trump, Musk, Zuckerberg, AIPAC…

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        6 months ago

        this is mostly an american take, and most of the rest of the world tends to disagree with this “free speech absolutism”

        it’s the slippery slope fallacy