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by dragonwriter 1972 days ago
> Point of Fact: 68% of voters had never heard of the Hunter Laptop on election day.

Point of fact: that’s bullshit.

https://today.yougov.com/topics/politics/articles-reports/20...

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At the final presidential debate Donald Trump tried to land a blow on Democratic rival Joe Biden by suggesting that purported evidence from a laptop computer links him to alleged corrupt business dealings by his son, Hunter Biden.

[...] the results of a new Yahoo News/YouGov poll (conducted Oct 23-25) highlight the extent to which it has cut through to the voting public. More than three quarters (77%) of registered voters say they have heard at least a little about the story, with four in ten (39%) saying they had heard “a lot”.

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The Hunter scandal was just one random example of countless examples of censorship by BigTech and M5M. I could care less about the laptop story.

I care about the censorship story. One corrupt family can't destroy a democracy, but a loss of free speech rights is guaranteed to.

> The Hunter scandal was just one random example of countless examples

Of stories you could have presented to support your narrative without concern for the fact that they have no basis in reality? Sure.

But it's the concrete example you chose. If there was a real problem, you'd think it wouldn't be hard for you to cite a real example rather than an unsourced, invented, weirdly specific claim (not “a majority” or “a large majority” but “68%”) that is readily shown to be completely in opposition to the facts.