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The Media Very Rarely Lies

Astral Codex Ten Podcast

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Censorship in Quotes

Nobody will ever be able to provide a hundred percent of relevant context for any story. It's an editorial decision which caveats to include and how many possible objections to address. Censorship, even the safe in quotes kind of censorship, will always involve a judgment call by a person in power enforcing their values. I don't see a huge difference in the level of deceptiveness here. Maybe you disagree and do think that one is worse than the other. But I would argue this is honest disagreement. Exactly the sort of disagreement that needs to be resolved by the marketplace of ideas.

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