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by throwawaylinux 1299 days ago
The answer isn't to hope others do the right thing or try to find ways to force them to, it is to learn to deal with them not doing the right thing. People should learn (or be taught) to distrust journalists, "experts", politicians, corporations, police, courts, government agencies, celebrities, and anybody who would try to influence our opinion or exert power over us.

Fortunately many people have recently been inoculated with a very healthy distrust of corporate media, so most people I know were pretty sure this story was hogwash from the beginning.

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Teaching people to distrust experts is what got us COVID. Do not recommend.
I don't think so. That sounds like typical disinformation spread by journalists and authoritarians.