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[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 days ago (1 children)

You know your local news network has a TikTok right?

That's not what people watch though. People get their news from "influencers", often time those with far right alignments, or straight from fascist parties who are the ones with the most reach on TicTok.

The problem is that media is unregulated and people are allowed to lie and pass off that information factual.

That's literally what the free press is, and a fundamental pillar of a free and democratic society. Regulated media is censored media, and exactly what fascists want. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_of_the_press

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Being “press” does not give you blanket protection from lies. Alex Jones just lost his company because he lied about Sandy Hook victims.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 days ago

He didn't lost his company because he lied as a press entity, he was lying for years without issues, he lost his company because he directly defamed the victims and their loved ones, which caused a massive lawsuit by them that went in their favor. Even in the US there's still a few restrictions to free speech, and defamation is one of them.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

press

Alex Jones

Which one is it now?!