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@ Soberano
2025-05-21 10:24:08
Thank you for your response and your opinion. I don’t see it as so simple. Podcasts and social media generally depend on private companies that are not obligated to respect freedom of speech. It’s like having privatized censorship, which legitimizes it. We see this constantly—it happened with Covid, and now we see it, for example, with the Israel-Palestine war.
The big difference between fact-checking and critical thinking is that often the “facts” are manipulated. Take climate change as an example (without giving any opinion). If you do a “fact-check,” you’ll find many sources that were once considered reliable claiming that, based on thermometers available in the oceans, temperatures are rising. There are charts with numbers and “facts.” With critical thinking, we can conclude that thermometers have only existed for a few years, while the Earth is millions of years old. And there’s no possible number of thermometers sufficient to declare things like “climate change is undeniable.” In short, it’s a complex issue that requires a lot of dialogue.