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  1. To be clear: no legitimate journalist trusted Breitbart before Bannon left, but people are going to start trusting it now?
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      A stint in the Trump Whit House doesn't do anything to make that site less of a racist, lying, bullying, bullshit-artist of an organization.
      1. …in reply to @Chronotope
        Mby treat it like any other source you don't trust & don't report what it says uncritically and without secondary verification?
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          If you're a blue checkmark journalist on this platform don't give it money or legitimacy by linking to their trash. A: Basic Fking Ethics...
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            B: This is a social platform which means that you are creating, amplifying and perhaps enhancing a network effect for Breitbart!...
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              So when you, someone w/a blue checkmark, link to a Breitbart article, you're increasing the chance for that *and* future articles to show...
              1. …in reply to @Chronotope
                You're increasing the chance that Breitbart is a source on Trending or in Moments, or in the Search tab. Because you're a trusted node.
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                  This isn't your backroom news org's Slack. Don't give them exactly what they want by uncritically linking, or linking at all.
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                    That's a violation of basic journalistic ethics and makes it harder to get good reporting out. You're making us all less trustworthy.
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                      If you want to discuss something on there, treat it as unverified until YOU verify it and do this: losowsky/898885898355392512


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