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by leereeves 750 days ago
> There is a stark difference between "fake news" and "difference of opinion that I don't agree with".

There is. But there's plenty of room in the definition of "fake news" to be biased and to exclude falsehoods that you support.

Even this paper excludes falsehoods propagated by the left, like the Steele Dossier or the claim that Hunter Biden's laptop was fake.

And as expected, some people here are downvoting this, thus proving my fundamental point. Any discussion of "fake news" is inherently political, though perhaps not always consciously.

Edit: and despite all the evidence otherwise, some people still believe in the fake news.

"Data from a laptop that the lawyer for a Delaware computer repair shop owner says was left by Hunter Biden in 2019 – and which the shop owner later provided to the FBI under subpoena – shows no evidence of tampering or fabrication, according to an independent review commissioned by CBS News."

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/hunter-biden-laptop-data-analys...

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The laptop found in the computer store of a blind guy containing a copy of Hunter Biden's iCloud was fake, yes.

The prosecutor in the case against him did recently claim it was real without providing new evidence of that. In the same document, he claimed a picture of sawdust on a table saw was a picture of Hunter Biden doing cocaine.

(Other stories about "Ashley Biden's diary" were also faked, though by different people, and faked in different ways.)

>> claimed a picture of sawdust on a table saw was a picture of Hunter Biden doing cocaine.

They also keep trying to say that Hunter's glass flute (or maybe its a piccolo?) is a crack-pipe!

Why would he photograph himself with a crack-pipe in his mouth? He wouldn't -- he's obviously practicing his music lessons.