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Washington Post gives nine tips to debunk your family members' conspiracy theories

The Washington Post has already beclowned itself today with Glenn Kessler’s fact-check of “the incendiary claim that George Soros funds Alvin Bragg.” Kessler got buried in Community Notes, which he complained about, resulting in more Community Notes disputing his complaint. It’s no secret Soros bankrolls the campaigns of liberal district attorneys — he even wrote an op-ed in the Wall Street Journal explaining why.

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So it’s doubly embarrassing that the Washington Post thought to offer nine tips to fact-check your friends and family when they start spouting conspiracy theories.

Teddy Amenabar writes:

When you’re talking to someone who believes in a conspiracy theory, [professor and political scientist at the University of Wisconsin Mike] Wagner said it can be helpful to ask: Who’s benefiting from your believing this? Who’s raising money or making money because of the audience they’ve built from this?

Wagner said that it can be helpful to remind people that if somebody at a mainstream news outlet such as The Washington Post or NPR reports something that’s false, they can be fired.

“People who work for really ideological talk shows or podcasts don’t have the same worry,” Wagner said. “They don’t get in trouble in the same way.”

Name anyone from the Post who was fired for publishing disinformation about Russia or the coronavirus or Nick Sandmann or the Wuhan lab-leak theory or Hunter Biden’s laptop.

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Speaking of the lab-leak theory, remember this?

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All of these “experts” WaPo consulted all say pretty much the same thing — ask them where they got their conspiracy theory and then try to steer them to mainstream sources like WaPo.

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