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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Jokes on you, anything controversial relating to Pakistan and India gets spammed and brigaded hourly.

That being said, its a great resource for finding secondary sources. Even if the sources themselves happen to be biased lol.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Anything controversial on any topic especially current events are extremely biased and strictly controlled by editors.

There are countless examples across the site. I won’t mention any because someone will say “that’s not controversial” because they share the same bias as the editor that “owns” the page.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

They use what to tell you? Smoke signals? Semaphore?

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

Hidden messages in advertisements

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

The same people who told you that now do fact checking on facebook instead

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)
  • with the exception of any article with an on going feud
[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Better than Google because at least it tries to fact check but it should be seen as a search engine

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