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Whatever the motives (from whomever), the smear campaign from WaPo against musk is obvious enough that I've seen many people talking about it and even a twitter post detailing the many articles painting musk in a negative light and comparing that to other sources which if the data is taken at face value was very damning of WaPo.

Personally I don't really care enough to investigate, but I thought it might provide some context as there appear to be (what I would assume) neutral parties commenting on the unfair reporting on musk from WaPo.

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> obvious enough that I've seen many people talking about it and even a twitter post

If you're accusing an investigative journalism outfit of bias, you'll need better evidence than "people talking about it and even a twitter post."

> If you're accusing

I'm not, I agree that if I was then I would need evidence.

> Personally I don't really care enough to investigate

but you do care enough to comment on the internet with no evidence, thus your context is just disguised misinformation mixed with the hubris that your opinion matters.

Geez, some people really go out of there way to make things hostile. My opinion does matter, just ask my mom!

I simply gave people some context and terms they can google if they're invested in this story. I'm not invested, and really don't much care if wapo is or isn't targeting musk. It doesn't affect my life one bit.

If you think my comment isn't valuable, downvote and move on - that's what the arrows are for.

It's not just that your comment had no value, it had negative value. If it only had no value, I would have done as you said, downvoted and moved on. But since it's existence was a detraction, I felt it was important enough to attempt to mitigate the propagation of potential misinformation.

I do apologize that adding the bit of "... hubris that your opinion matters" came across rather harshly and was unneeded to my point.

> thus your context is just disguised misinformation mixed with the hubris that your opinion matters

This is a really silly thing to say. You're posting your opinion. Is that hubris?

No, because hubris is about having "excessive pride", and it doesn't take much pride to decide that I can parse the English language and determine that the person I am replying to has made a fallacious statement.

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