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Control of the truth happens regardless. A large part of the US population still believes that the last election was stolen based on Trump’s story.



uhh does it though? your example directly disproves that because freedom to lie implies freedom to dissent and vice versa. the fact that people can go spread misinformation and that most sane people disagree, but others are still free to go talk about it proves that nobody has "control of the truth" and that's on balance a good thing.




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