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>>codech+(OP)
Another pretty good article, certainly higher quality than you'd consider given the source[0]. What switch flipped to make all these come out right now?

[0]: https://www.newsweek.com/exclusive-how-amateur-sleuths-broke...

>>ctoth+m7
The reason it's coming out now is because Trump is gone.

During the election, most of the media decided to ignore anything they were afraid would help Trump or hurt Biden.

Whether an activist media is good or bad is left as an exercise for the reader.

>>nostro+Jb
We have an actively status-quo favoring media, not an activist one. The former president was a pathological liar (thousands of documented clear lies during his office), and there were (and are) extremely good reasons to ignore more or less anything he said.

>>PaulDa+ec
There are reasons to ignore what Trump says - not reasons to believe the opposite of what he says. In other words, if Trump says "Covid was made in a Chinese lab" that shouldn't convince anyone either way. I'm afraid it may have convinced our media though that "Covid was definitely not made in a Chinese lab" and that is basically the same mistake as believing everything Trump says.