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> if you read “France declares war on Canada”, you’re not gonna believe it

A lie that is repeated a thousand times becomes truth. We are not talking about one out of place, weird news that would appear once on someone's newsfeed. We are talking about mass flooding.

> unless it’s coming from an extremely reputable source

It's 2022, no one is verifying sources

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there’s mass flooding of text too. some people fall for it, some people don’t. the being of it in a different medium makes little change.

>verifying sources

I’m talking about if your news came from Reuters or the BBC compared to coming from realnews247.io or a facebook post. the same applies. if you’ll believe some text on the BBC, you’ll believe a video from there, and if you’ll believe the words of AnonTruther on facebook, then you’ll believe their videos too. this makes no difference

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