RationalWiki:What is going on in the blogosphere?/February 2023

February 2023

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Conspiracy theories are claiming the war in Ukraine is fake

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The 10 most important things court filings in the Dominion case have revealed about Fox News.

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When Your Boyfriend Becomes an Andrew Tate Fan

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The global ripple effects of Russia's war in Ukraine, mapped country-by-country.

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Biden went to Kyiv; DeSantis went to Fox and Friends. Or, Ron DeSantis finds the wrong side of Ukraine.

19

How Milton Friedman aided and abetted segregationists in his quest to privatize public education.

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The Onion takes on the media's recent wave of anti-transgender fearmongering: "Is the point of reporting to illuminate the world around us, so that we may make meaning of it? Or is it to cause people in minority groups to question their humanity and persuade others to demonize them?"

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What US abortion legislation looks like in 2023.

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How the wealthy save billions by skirting a century-old tax law.

17

Why sex education doesn't need to be awkward.

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Elon's profiting off of unbanning far-righters.

19

Inside r/Obsessive_Love, the 2019-spawned subreddit that has users swapping tips on getting access to the webcams of the victims of their stalking using specialist search engines such as Shodan, which archive electronic devices.

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The St. Louis Children's Hospital anti-trans "whistleblower" story debunked point-by-point.

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You Are Lied To Every Day – DarkMatter2525 goes over the spread of social media disinformation and the propaganda used by anti-vaxxers, anti-LBGTQ+ bigots, and others.

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Why are politics in Peru in disarray? Inside the halls of its Congress

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As per the usual right-wing hypocrisy, Chinese spy balloons flew over the US three times during the Trump administration, and, unlike Biden, Trump never shot down a single one. Turns out they were not detected during Trump administration - US defense abilities to detect them have only been instituted under Biden

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The Anti-Trans State of the States as of February 4th.