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Is that to block awareness around what came out in the news recently, where the prosecution's key witness basically made the case for Kyle acting in self-defense? I did see that news headlines were whitewashing what was said (https://thefederalist.com/2021/11/09/media-desperately-white...) but if this is some kind of information curation/narrative shaping from Facebook, then that's pretty dark. On the other hand, maybe this is to address abuse pointed at Kyle Rittenhouse or other people sharing that name?

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Here's that part of the testimony: https://twitter.com/thevivafrei/status/1457774701673996298

It's an open and shut case of self defense between that testimony and a timestamped walkthrough of the event. Yet the media is still trying to spin it. Though there is at least one journalist who admitted they made a mistake, which was great to see. Ana Kasparian of the Young Turks: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DRPsXhErQA8

I don't trust The Federalist any more than Huffington Post to give unbiased coverage of this trial. Don't judge a case on the headlines you read, and especially don't cherrypick from overtly biased sources.

I'm not a regular reader of The Federalist but some of their articles can be good. This particular one lists out the different headlines other newspapers ran about the testimony from Gaige Grosskreutz, highlighting their bias. To me it seems like The Federalist made a good case for how those headlines misled readers, because they played up Gaige's fear for his life over the bombshell admittance that he pointed a gun at Kyle before being shot.

I have been watching the trial live, and The Federalist's perspective seems quite accurate. Just like with the Zimmerman case, people watching live are seeing the prosecution's case fall apart in real time, while most media outlets are presenting it as a fait accompli. I guess they'll get lots of clicks when the jury returns a "shock" not guilty verdict?

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