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SUZY BROKENSHA

I don’t often ‘skew for anxiety’, as someone put it the other day (which I believe means being anxious), but I do find the fact that Facebook no longer employs fact-checkers – and that X/Twitter hasn’t been doing so for ages – pretty alarming. Without proper journalists, newspapers or other publications of record, facts don’t only matter less than opinion, but they actually cease to exist in the public forum. Which means sooner or later we’ll all be part of Meghan Markle’s somewhat murky world of ‘my truth’ and ‘your truth’. And if none of that ‘truthiness’ is based on fact, how can we ever talk about anything? It’s no longer a discussion; it’s just blasting ‘truths’ at each other. I’m all for everyone having the freedom and the responsibility…

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