"Salon has now changed a 2021 headline that falsely said 'DeSantis signs bill requiring ...'"

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Salon has now changed a 2021 headline that falsely said "DeSantis signs bill requiring Florida students, professors to register political views with state." The survey is optional for students/profs and anonymous (though some have expressed concerns about potential to be IDed).

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[The Magistrate]

1. Best To Get The Hyperbole Out In Front, Sir

Let them play 'chase the lie' for once. Because a year from now that initial headline will be accurate. This is one slippery-slope argument I take seriously. Nothing on-line is hidden, someone always can find it, the only question being how hard they're looking. The state government will know who has and who has not taken the survey, and feel emboldened to make filling it out a condition for new hires, probably amid pious 'affirmative action' noises, after which it will become mandatory for continued employment. All this supposing, of course, a continued Republican choke-hold on Florida's government.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

2. Fact check: Headline falsely states that Students have to register their political views in Florida

Salon has had some bad crap lately including attacks on Biden and demands that its readers no longer donate to Democrats. I have seen multiple threads on DU stating that DeathSantis has signed a bill that requires all students to register their political views. Salon made this headline up and this claim is false

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https://www.cnn.com/2022/07/08/politics/fact-check-desantis-florida-students-professors-political-views/index.html?utm_medium=social&utm_term=link&utm_source=twCNNp&utm_content=2022-07-08T18%3A20%3A06

The liberal website Salon has changed a headline that had falsely said a bill signed by Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis forces Florida's students and professors to register their political views with the state.

The 2021 law does require public colleges and universities in Florida to administer annual surveys on the subject of "intellectual freedom and viewpoint diversity." But contrary to the inaccurate initial Salon headline, the law does not require anybody to register their political views. Students and faculty members can decide whether to participate in the surveys, which are anonymous.

Salon published the headline in June 2021. Its revision on Wednesday, more than a year later, came after the article went viral among some Democrats on Twitter amid talk of a possible DeSantis run for president.

Before Salon's revision, its false claim was promoted this week by various Democratic commentators, by Florida agriculture commissioner and Democratic gubernatorial candidate Nikki Fried (who subsequently deleted the tweet that linked to the Salon article), and even by renowned novelist Stephen King, who has more than 6.7 million Twitter followers and has been a harsh critic of DeSantis.

[Baggies]

3. Just dumb

I saw that online and knew it was BS because I had been keeping up with it. It's crap like this that has people pointing fingers at the Democratic Party as the one to blame. They ask why the Democratic Party let the lie stand for so long, etc, etc... It's natural for them to wonder what's going on. Salon already has a poor reputation among way too many. Why they would do this is understandable based upon what they want to accomplish, but it won't work. There's so much being tried right now that simply won't work. It'd be nice if an alarm would awaken those trying these things, but it seems they're blinded by what they've convinced themselves is true.