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On the other hand, the media has truly earned this distrust and isn’t the result of “foreign agitation”.

Both mainline ideologies constantly and pathologically deceive and withhold information to make things one sided increasing polarization.

MSNBC argues that its audience knows that its news isn’t actually news...(!)

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I generally agree, but I don't think foreign agitation can be completely dismissed. I've heard there's evidence that Russia was contributing to the rise of both the BLM and Blue Lives movements. The media can exasperate the issue, and may even be a necessary part of that agitation.

I don't think you're wrong, but consider that posting "I heard" with no source is pretty close to just posting misinformation

I didn't think I needed a source for a well known and long standing history of the CCCP and later Russia doing this sort of thing.

https://www.npr.org/2017/10/30/560042987/russians-targeted-u...

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