[palmotea]

> "obviously rubbish" is doing a lot of work here. How do you gauge whether something is obviously rubbish?

If it defies orthodoxy, in most cases. At least that's my observation.

Most of the cases where I've seen complaints of "both-sidesing" is about mainstream media coverage that did not dismiss one major faction's position out of hand. Basically, a demand the journalist put on a judge hat and rule for the speaker's side. And it happened in the context of the cultural moment described here: https://www.noahpinion.blog/p/the-bluesky-ization-of-the-ame....