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Well that is a seperate matter, the moderation of these platforms needs to be carefully scrutinised in the same way they demonetize youtubers for breaching their platform guidelines.

Or, you could allow free discourse and let people draw their own conclusions, since we don't know everything, and there's no telling when some new breakthrough will upend the entire scientific consensus on some previously thought to be bedrock assumptions.

Or, you could allow free discourse and let people draw their own conclusions, since we don't know everything, and there's no telling when some new breakthrough will upend the entire scientific consensus on some previously thought to be bedrock assumptions.

Well that is a seperate matter, the moderation of these platforms needs to be carefully scrutinised in the same way they demonetize youtubers for breaching their platform guidelines.

Is that really going to happen?
There are people (capitalists) who own big media corporations (CNN, FOX, ABC) who have no concern about the truth just their profits.

Is that really going to happen?
There are people (capitalists) who own big media corporations (CNN, FOX, ABC) who have no concern about the truth just their profits.

Yes, that's a valid point. Big media corporations are always susceptible to government interference. However we can ascertain some issues need to be policed online that push the bounds of credibility

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The weirdest part is that that they want people to think that knowing how to arrive at the right fact-checker isbeing a critical thinker or even 'woke'.

Only during a Democratic administration would a major newsroom gloss over readily available evidence to “fact-check” Gold Star families incorrectly.

This is exactly what USA Today did this week, and it is every bit as embarrassing as it sounds.

President Joe Biden embarrassed himself last weekend during the dignified transfer of the 13 U.S. troops killed in the Afghanistan withdrawal. The president checked his watch not once, not twice, but at least three times during the ceremony — because he apparently had somewhere more important to be than the event marking the return of the U.S. service members killed under his disastrous mismanagement.

Biden wasn’t even discreet about it.

There are photos of the president checking his watch during the ceremony. There are videos. Most upsetting of all is that the president’s lack of discretion and taste did not go unnoticed by grieving family members, some of whom complained to the press about the president’s behavior.

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So, what does USA Today do? It publishes a fact-check claiming Biden did not repeatedly check the time during the ceremony. Apparently, those videos are simply wrong. Also, those Gold Star families who complained to the press probably don’t know what they’re talking about.

“Fact check: Biden honored service members killed in Kabul, checked watch only after ceremony,” read the original USA Today headline.

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The fact-check initially concluded: “Based on our research, we rate PARTLY FALSE the claim that Trump saluted the caskets of fallen U.S. service members, while Biden checked his watch. The pictures are real, but they don't accurately summarize the two events. The way Biden honored the 11 caskets presented at Dover Air Force Base, with a hand over his heart, was similar to how Trump paid respects to fallen service members during his presidency. Biden checked his watch, but he did so after the ceremony had ended.”

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“This story was updated Sept. 2 to note that Biden checked his watch multiple times at the dignified transfer event, including during the ceremony itself,” read an editor's note affixed to the story.

Amazingly, it added, “The rating on this claim has been changed from partly false to missing context.”

Missing context? What missing context? The claim is that Biden checked his watch during the ceremony. USA Today itself conceded this happened. Yet it still can't bring itself to give a harsher rating than "missing context" to its botched, since-amended fact-check?

Just incredible stuff from a member of that supposed bulwark of our democracy. Stupidity or malevolence? I’ll let you decide.

The ultimate fact check? I guess the buck stops at us in the end. Our money pays the salaries of news companies.

you pay the pooper s-cooper

Source: https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/usa-today-whiffs-hard-on-fact-check-of-bidens-shameful-impatience

"Fact check" under discussion:
Original: https://web.archive.org/web/20210901185201/https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/factcheck/2021/09/01/fact-check-biden-checked-watch-after-ceremony-dover-air-force-base/5663427001/
Revised: https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/factcheck/2021/09/01/fact-check-biden-checked-watch-after-ceremony-dover-air-force-base/5663427001/

The more I learn about Biden, the less compassionate he seems.
Is this his character or the sign of his dementia?
At this stage, I am not sure.

BTW,
The polls:
The majority of Amerians agree with the Afghan exit.
The majority of Amerians believe Biden did a bad job.

Remember to forgo the habit of looking at your watch is not compassion. It's self-control and good manners. This kind of mistake is a silly thing to obsess over, but everyone always does. I said the same thing when people obsessed over similar lapses by Trump. There are bigger issues to spend energy on.

Remember to forgo the habit of looking at your watch is not compassion. It's self-control and good manners. This kind of mistake is a silly thing to obsess over, but everyone always does. I said the same thing when people obsessed over similar lapses by Trump. There are bigger issues to spend energy on.

Diverting from plans to spend time with someone who is suffering is compassion. There are numerous examples of Biden doing that, taking the time to actually talk with and provide support to someone in need. I am under the impression he tries to do it away from the cameras.

I'm tired of the charge he has dementia. If he does, then I do. Seriously. Aging has its side effects, but not all those side effects are dementia.

The man is not perfect. Withdrawing from Afghanistan was destined to be messy, and I can see why people believe it was handled poorly. I honestly don't have the expertise to know for sure, but I accept the conclusion he should have done better.

Still, the US military managed the largest evacuation ever. 120,000 people is not to be scoffed at. Negotiations continue for the rest, but it will never be all-encompassing. Too many lone Taliban factions with their own ideas. I'll let the experts do the postmortem, and read along as they present it. It will be a while before any final assessment can be thoughtfully and accurately made, however.