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    It’s practically impossible for individuals or governments to fact-check every piece of information effectively at the scale social media companies operate at. Social media companies have the resources and technology to implement automated and manual fact-checking processes to handle this volume.

    They also have the only direct control over their platforms, needed to implement measures to fact-check in the first place. It’s their platform, so they should have control over it. They have a responsibility to combat misinformation, given the huge amount of influence they have over politics.

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      Yet, they are often wrong. It isn’t up to social media to decide what the “truth” is.

      A good example is facebook blocked the hunter laptop story even though it was true. That impacts elections and that isn’t their job.

      People should be able to read and evaluate the information and make their own decisions.

      Now I will caveat that with i don’t mind them blocking meme and crap like that. I do not mind them blocking legitimate news outlets. That isn’t their job to be the keeper of the ‘truth’. That is why I don’t use facebook. They spread propaganda and not information.

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        Nothing about the hunter laptop story had any merit whatsoever. You are a great example of why people can’t be trusted.

        Despite persistent allegations that the laptop contents indicated corruption by Joe Biden, a joint investigation by two Republican Senate committees released in September 2020 did not find wrongdoing by him, nor did a Republican House Oversight committee investigation by November 2023.

        And then we get:

        People should be able to read and evaluate the information and make their own decisions.

        Yeah…fucking no. We had to stop using the phrase “Avoid it like the plague” because of “reading and evaluating the information on their own”. We had people saying that covid vaccines contained tracking chips and 5g and all sorts of vastly stupid shit. You, and people like you, are the reason that the general public cannot be trusted to determine what information is factual and what information is not. You can’t even be trusted to not regurgitate “HUNTER LAPTOP HURR DURRR”; even though it’s already a done deal. You are the epitome of propagandized.

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          The story has merit. That is absurd to think otherwise. It wasn’t Russian disinformation like Facebook claimed. It was legit.

          You want to claim I listen to propaganda but you think a story about Hunter’s laptop with emails and photos doesn’t have merit? That is someone who has bought the party line. Not only do you lose any credibility with such an ignorant claim, but it also shows you have never reviewed anything from the laptop. You are just parroting what you read from a “fact” checker.

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            Thankfully, I’m parroting what I see from reality. You should check in sometime.

            https://apnews.com/article/hunter-biden-burisma-fbi-informant-lying-6969656f6012780a23a4b8841ce2689b

            There has been literally nothing that came from the Hunter Laptop story, and you aren’t just naive, you are quite LITERALLY brainwashed. This is quite actively an ongoing embarrassment for the republican party, as they brought impeachment inquiries forward, without any evidence whatsoever.

            The only people talking about “Hunters Laptop” right now are the propagandists. You really need to step back and take a good long hard look at where you are in life right now. Because you’re caught on the end of that hook.

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              Why are you citing something unrelated to the laptop? That is weird as hell. Is that typically how you have a conversation? You just talk about something unreleated? Maybe that is because the Democrats keep trying to bury it.

              Maybe you find nothing interesting on the laptop but I have seen many interesting things from the laptop. Yet, the Democrats keep trying to hide the laptop. So weird to hide something of no value.

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                Citations please. The whole laptop thing ties in with the Ukrainian energy company. Many claims have been that all the proof is on that laptop and it’s been wiped! (as I clutch my pearls)

                Give me a break. You haven’t seen shit from the laptop. Nobody hid the laptop, it’s been passed around to forensics in 3 different US departments…now you’re literally pulling shit out of the blue. Why would you need to invent things that never happened if your claims relied on factual information?

                Maybe you find nothing interesting on the laptop but I have seen many interesting things from the laptop.

                This is fucking wiiiiiiild. You are quite LITERALLY delusional.

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                  You do realize several pieces of evidence have been released to the public?

                  Dude, if you don’t know what you are talking about then STFU.

                  https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2022/03/30/hunter-biden-laptop-data-examined/

                  The DKIM information has been published and confirmed. Many of the emails have been published. Many of the photos have been published.

                  Since you have no clue what you are talking about and are ignorant of the topic. I am going to say have a good day.

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                    Thanks for that story from 2…fucking…years…ago…

                    If there was anything there, don’t you think we’d have heard about it by now? But instead Republicans ran through an impeachment query with NO EVIDENCE to submit?! NONE?! Says right in your article that security researchers went through it all. So…where’s the meat and potatos?