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AshamedCaptainyesterday at 4:34 PM1 replyview on HN

> Does HN spread Fake News?

Yes? Even newspapers do that. You have never had Gell-Mann when reading something here outside mainstream topics of interest? (e.g. almost anything from outside the US, or health related).

Is this really the criteria you want to use to decide whether to require age checks for a website?

> the EU chooses to force concrete measures from the social media pages.

This just sidesteps the issue of how a website ends up in the list. Today, Reddit. Tomorrow, Discord. Then Github. Eventually, HN.


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snowpidyesterday at 4:37 PM

My news is almost outside of the US as I am not American. (wow this should be sent to r/USDefaultism). So let's say like this: I do read a lot outside of "American mainstream media".

Most good working journalist try to verify claim and statements. This is the opposite to Fake News, Clickbait and Russian state propaganda spread in Social Media because its their business model.