Just what we need: the government controlling truth.

Where did I read about this before?

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>Just what we need: the government controlling truth.

Ah yes, "truth" synonymous with "fake news".

Question: How do you not pass out from lack of oxygen with your head so far up your ass?

The only thing that can even attempt to stop fake news is plugging all fake and real news into an AI, and having it sort through the threads, lol

Real and fake depends on whose narrative you want to believe and who's going to benefit

As long as liars are outed, we can get behind it eventually

Question: how does the government determine whats real vs whats fake news

Not trolling, legit question

Probably some sort of trust ranking system for the news sources. Ie. Is the source CNN or the Onion?

That's what I'd say, journalism reviews.

I usually go to Mediafactcheckbias if I want to see how credible a source is. Or just how partisan they are since I'd rather not read something along the lines of: "Those woke liberals/right wing extremists did such and such!". I'm just there for the facts, not some journalist's opinions.

I am conflicted on this, while on the surface this is not a great idea. all kinds of possible issues with it. but when you expand and unpack it, misinfo, disinfo and just junk news sites that are planly propaganda are a problem.

the how, is just as important as the why. in this case; not only that, there are entire segments of the population that buy into some of the junk news, and bad actor sites. which in of itself creates a problem.

I am sure this is probably a solvable problem, but anything you can think of has major trust issues with it. which is part of the problem.

some sort of independent trust index, might work but would still have trust issues with it. as who and how does the index rating get effected?

Lies are subjective

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There's a reason conservative think tanks still publish articles demonizing the fairness doctrine. It's because they love people like you.

There was research and evidence.

How would that work? Not familiar with the concept.

Damn do you just have no education whatsoever?

Well, at least misinformation they don’t like. The rest will be left alone, or even propagated by the government itself.

You just made it 1000% clear you didn’t read past the headline before you started jerking your knees around.

Hey you guys in here knee-jerking about “the government”: Y’all know there’s more than one of those, right?

They really aren't

This comment section is a dumpster fire. Did Reddit start sorting by worst?

Facts are facts.

mate. government head and support most fake news

Pfizer have admitted they did not have any proof the vaccine prevented spreading covid.

The government are also.well aware of overcrowding and housing problems in Sydney and it is supported and encouraged by the councils as it pushes up.rent as rooms are sublet to multiple parties jacking up rent therefore property prices.and council rates.

They would also know one million migrants they process plus the economic migrants who use New Zealand as unrecorded migration will spike after covid induced poverty.

Same as company ies.know putting sugar in baby food will induce diabetes in many more adults and the list goes on.

"Pfizer have admitted they did not have any proof the vaccine prevented spreading covid."

https://www.reuters.com/article/factcheck-pfizer-vaccine-transmission-idUSL1N31F20E

"Social media users are circulating video clips of testimony by a Pfizer executive, who is said to “admit” that the company and its partner BioNTech did not test whether their mRNA-based COVID-19 vaccine reduced virus transmission prior to rolling it out – which is something the companies were not required to do for initial regulatory approval, nor did they claim to have done.

To get emergency approval, companies needed to show that the vaccines were safe and prevented vaccinated people from getting ill. They did not have to show that the vaccine would also prevent people from spreading the virus to others. Once the vaccines were on the market, independent researchers in multiple countries studied people who received the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine and did show that vaccination reduced transmission of variants circulating at the time."

That same article says it was effective at keeping vaccinated people healthy. If you could still transmit it to someone who’s not vaccinated that’s their fault

Incorrect. The anti-vaccine garbage you’re repeating is the fake news.

That aside: have you still not noticed which government is under discussion here? You know there’s more than one, yeah?

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In other words, “the precautions worked, therefore we didn’t need the precautions.”

Jesus, dude. That’s just appalling.

Millions of people died. Millions. How have you forgotten that already? How dare you downplay it as “relatively harmless”?

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Oh my goodness. I didn’t realize I was speaking with an actual raving lunatic; I hope you’re getting the mental health care you so obviously need.

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C'mon, man. You can't possibly be as dense as you're pretending to be right now. That doesn't even make sense as fiction, let alone as something that could actually happen on earth.

For what you're describing to be true would require a worldwide conspiracy involving basically every health care worker and records-keeper on the planet, with literally every government and organization suddenly cooperating even with their direct ideological enemies, all of this working in concert, all in perfect secrecy.

Not to mention that recording other types of death as COVID deaths would be obvious at a glance to anyone paying the slightest bit of attention, because there'd have to be a sudden unexplainable drop in the number of recorded deaths from every other cause.

And all of this for literally no reason or benefit other than to, um, *checks notes* increase the rent in Sydney? That's your grand conspiracy?

Seriously I don't understand how people like you get tricked into spouting such obviously ridiculous beliefs. I really don't.

"get number 5"? What on earth are you babbling about now?

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