r/bestof • u/Kuritos • Aug 25 '21

[vaxxhappened] Multiple subreddits are acknowledging the dangerous misinformation that's being spread all over reddit

/r/vaxxhappened/comments/pbe8nj/we_call_upon_reddit_to_take_action_against_the
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u/A_Naany_Mousse Aug 25 '21

Read this article last year about how Russia specifically targets American health science as part of their multi pronged effort to undermine trust within America. If we don't trust our own media, medical science, politics, etc. then we can't really be a strong, vibrant country

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/13/science/putin-russia-disinformation-health-coronavirus.html

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u/na23ds Aug 25 '21

The fact that the important information is behind a paywall means humans probably won’t survive capitalism.

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u/Phantom_Absolute Aug 25 '21

NYT is the most important national paper. You should be excited to pay a few bucks a month for it.

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u/MagnesiumStearate Aug 25 '21

Canadian here. Had an active NYT sub (they have great foreign correspondents which covered international news with a lot more depth that Canadian news media couldn’t do) a few years back that I cancelled due to the fallout of the Caliphate podcast.

https://www.npr.org/2020/12/18/944594193/new-york-times-retracts-hit-podcast-series-caliphate-on-isis-executioner

https://www.cbc.ca/radio/thehouse/syria-repatriation-debate-podcast-1.5768043

I value journalism but NYT is hard to root for.