Opinion

Pushing Total Bullshit Misinformation Is Not ‘Healthy Skepticism’ of the Powerful

MUH DISCOURSE

When it comes to partisan influencers who spread baseless, unhinged conspiracy theories you do not, under any circumstances, “gotta hand it to them.”

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Illustration by Elizabeth Brockway/The Daily Beast

The right-of-center commentariat and MAGA politicians are pushing a bizarre fallacy that the mainstream media, government, and other gatekeepers are inherently untrustworthy—therefore even the worst

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