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> What would be then? Newspapers? Gossip?

I think anywhere that libel and slander are enforced. Any random person with any random agenda can write on facebook or make youtube videos advancing that agenda.

> News sources are always biased, even when they try to stay neutral. The trick is to learn to extract useful nuggets of information from a number of biased streams. Having these streams biased differently helps.

I'm not talking about bias, I'm talking about obvious made-up QAnon garbage.

> This is much like raw data in science: all data have noise and imperfections, but statistics help extract a signal if there is one.

I would argue that baseless data is not data at all.




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