🤔 Y'all pretend to be worried about "disinformation" in journalism and social media...

But you just accept a Washington Post report describing a violent, racist, traitor leaking government secrets (about an ongoing war!) to a chatroom full of racist kids and young men he's radicalizing, as a "charismatic gun enthusiast?" Y'all are deeply unserious people.

You don't care about disinformation at all, as long as the disinfo is in the usual US direction: downplaying racism that hurts Black folk.

@mekkaokereke "He yells a series of racial and antisemitic slurs into the camera, then fires several rounds at a target."

Ah yes, very charming chap, that young boy. Well done Washington Post.

But seriously, the same author has written both of these lines, which are only not a contradiction if you tacitly agree with the racist

@sophieschmieg @mekkaokereke

English is not my first language, so I wonder what "racial slurs" is supposed to mean. I guess it's basically "racist slurs"? Is there an actual difference or does the author simply try to avoid the word "racist"?

@Mab_813 @mekkaokereke they are trying to avoid the word racist.