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burnt-resistoryesterday at 4:50 PM1 replyview on HN

Corporate editors, boiler room political operations, and random conspiracy cranks are given a bothsideism platform to edit and narrate facts in their favor.

https://en.ejo.ch/public-relations/manipulation-wikipedia

https://imemc.org/article/59294/

https://www.thebureauinvestigates.com/stories/2026-01-14/lon...

https://avim.org.tr/en/Analiz/THE-DARKNESS-BEYOND-WIKIPEDIA-...

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/congress-opens-inves...

https://arxiv.org/abs/2006.13990

https://www.isdglobal.org/isd-publications/identifying-sock-...

https://www.city-journal.org/article/policing-wikipedia

https://www.theguardian.com/sustainable-business/2015/oct/30...

https://www.techdirt.com/2007/08/14/diebold-disney-many-othe...


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psunavy03yesterday at 4:58 PM

"Bothsidesism" is a tired argument. Somehow if you don't think that one side of a debate is utter evil and the other side is as pure as the driven snow, you're engaging in "bothsidesism" if you acknowledge there are any shades of gray in the world. Which is a childish argument for anyone older than a high school sophomore.

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