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halpiamaquark
10y ago
My argument is very simple but you apparently misunderstand. morgante guessed that I reject fact checking simply if it doesn't confirm my worldview. I rebutted that the fact checkers in question aren't simply disproving my worldvi
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halpiamaquark
10y ago
I do not put myself out there as a disinterested arbiter of fact. Facebook isn't going to be appending my critical analysis to alleged fake news stores.
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halpiamaquark
10y ago
Let's see some statistical analysis that the fact checkers FB claims are disinterested arbiters of fact aren't in fact pushing an agenda before we go along with censorship maybe.
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halpiamaquark
10y ago
Politifact and Snopes push their opinionated worldview as though it is objectively true and morally righteous.
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halpiamaquark
10y ago
The kosher fact checkers list includes the biased and opinion-based Politifact and Snopes.
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halpiamaquark
10y ago
The warnings may be discredited but the disputed stories will appear lower on the news feed according to FB. "Appear lower" is the least controversial way for FB to dip its toe in this water, so we'll see how the censorship
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halpiamaquark
10y ago
>That's what electrons, and photons, and neutrons, etc, are. [...] They are bundles of probability amplitudes smeared out over space and time intervals. This is not a metaphor. This is stark reality. Aren't you describing a rep