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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
To paraphrase one of my favorite comedies, Super Troopers:

“But Trump’s lies are cheeky and fun!

Yeah, and the establishment’s lies are cruel and tragic.”

Of course this is an overstatement; Trump’s lies were not pretty but the point is that obvious lies are significantly less damaging than well-hidden lies. It’s the skillful liars that one needs to be wary of.

>>jkhdig+fe
This is massively downplaying the amount of damage trump & his cohort's lies have done and continue to do.