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14. Kinda sad that we'll never get genuine follow-up to nail down what F47 means by "hoax"
Thu Nov 20, 2025, 01:50 AM
20 hrs ago

Apparently, F47 uses "hoax" as a dog whistle indicating that only F47 and closely allied media can be viewed as trustworthy sources on a given topic, while every other source is "fake news" and not to be viewed, let alone trusted, by the vanguard faithful. But we'll never have a media outlet push back on that, cos they'd lose their WH press pool spots immediately.

At some point this will need to change, one way or another.

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