‘Merica’s addiction to fake

[Belacqua]

Should the ftc expand advertisements to news?

This has become a tricky thing.

Liberals, who formerly stood up for a free press, have started demanding that the government or zillion-dollar corporations (Facebook, Google) censor what people post. Or at least they did when Trump was in; Biden's lies generate less concern. 

In practice this has caused even more fakery. For example the big news people supported Biden over Trump, so they dismissed certain news stories as Russian propaganda. Yet a lot of them turn out to be true. (e.g. Hunter's laptop was real.) If you cast doubt on early statements about Covid (e.g. you won't get it if you're vaccinated) your doubts were flagged as misinformation, but it turned out that doubt was warranted. 

I suppose it's human nature: we want to believe what suits us.