It’s not just about facts: Democrats and Republicans have sharply different attitudes about removing misinformation from social media::One person’s content moderation is another’s censorship when it comes to Democrats’ and Republicans’ views on handling misinformation.

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If you want to deal with misinformation, at some point someone has to say what misinformation is. Someone has to make a judgement on every fact, every event, every story.

And holy fuck my dude! “Furthermore, “misinformation” and “disinformation” refer to things that can be true!”

Thats some shit straight out of 1984. Censoring true facts? Wtf is wrong with you?

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propagandists don’t always need to invent false facts to use them in deceptive ways

Doing some subtle straw man arguments there, huh? Or just missed the rest of the comment?

If I use a true fact and blatantly ignore other facts and context to try to start an ethnic cleansing, should I be censored or not? The most dangerous lies are the ones that have bits of truth in them to gloss over the bad bits.

Don’t pretend that intent isn’t important, or that the world is black and white. Ignoring nuance is the most egregious underlying issue with conservatives.

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