• deadbeef79000@lemmy.nz
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    5 months ago

    Take an article from a reputable publisher, an article for a subject that you are expert in.

    Read it and make note of facts they got right and got wrong.

    Now apply that same ratio to articles where you have little or no expertise.

    These guys are just speed running th at to its inevitable end.

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      5 months ago

      Take an article from a reputable publisher, an article for a subject that you are expert in.

      Read it and make note of facts they got right and got wrong.

      This is what got me to shake free of some podcasters I placed far too much faith in at one point in the past. When I realized how slanted and fucked their opinion was on things I knew about, it put all their other opinions in a much different light.