That the narrative is fractured along political lines is worrisome. https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/too-good-to-check-a-pl...
What is unexcusable is that part of the media propagated with glee a hoax depicting by association their political opponents as worm infested animals.
The first I heard of it was from some right wing source dunking on Rolling Stone for it.
Who the hell cares about Rolling Stone? Or is "concerned" they were taken in? Do people care about the reliability of general news in Sports Illustrated, GQ, or Playboy (assuming they still exist)?
You know, it just hit me - I don't think there were any magazines in my dentist's office the last time I was there, unless I have amnesia. Of course, these days you don't wait in the waiting room.
The story was propagated on Twitter and by a number of recognizable media outlets (Rolling Stones, Business Insider, MSNBC, The Hill, Newsweek, The Guardian / UK, Daily Mirror / UK), in spite of being obvious (and malicious) nonsense. Assuming a minimum responsibility to the truth, we'd expect some kind of postmortem would be in order.
Small aside: There are no magazines at the dentist because everyone is glued to their mobile phone.
Edit: There won't be any postmortem. I'm having a strange vision of the future. The pretense of truth gradually eroded to its naked conclusion. A media landscape where 'news' are written by GPTn optimizing for engagement.
Furthermore, some of those are definitely not "MSM" where MSM = some vague liberal establishment, so I wonder if you've veered away from the party line about the libs being hoaxed.
Newsweek isn't what it used to be, although I'm not sure what it is.
They could try Ivermectin.