Friday, October 31, 2025

When Internet Conspiracy Theories Are Now Official Government Policy

During the first Trump administration, Washington Post fact checker Glenn Kessler documented more than 30,000 lies by the president. Now Trump's back in the White House and Kessler is gone, as the Post's owner Jeff Bezos seeks to make the storied paper more MAGA-friendly.

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-- Glenn Kessler (@glennkessler.bsky.social) Oct 30, 2025 at 3:11 PM

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Reporters should go with it since they're not allowed to ask real questions anymore. Why won't you admit the Moon landing was fake? Why is the government still spraying us with chemtrails? How did the president not know that covid was a bioweapon, and why did he get Big Pharma to inject every American with poison?

#1 | Posted by Derek_Wildstar at 2025-10-31 12:44 PM

How sad is it that in order to be more MAGA friendly you have to dispense with factual reporting?

#2 | Posted by jpw at 2025-10-31 02:39 PM

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