• Delta_V@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    fund it exclusively out of his own pocket

    That’s how newspapers got started - they were propaganda organs of the rich and existed exclusively to manipulate public opinion. Things really haven’t changed that much, but somewhere along the way people were tricked into paying for them.

    • TheObviousSolution@lemm.ee
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      4 months ago

      Except that libel laws exist to regulate things like newspapers, not things like random comments by random users you may not even know is a bot account.