If *I* have to fact-check the uncited claims made in news articles, doesn't that make *me* the journalist? - eviltoast
  • Kalcifer@sh.itjust.worksOP
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    9 hours ago

    […] You can’t start a legal process against every single tweet and facebook post (let alone every message in a Whatsapp group you can’t even see in the first place). […]

    Imo, theoretically one could, but I think that it would be impractical, or at least prohibitively expensive.

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      9 hours ago

      Same thing. You’ll run out of court bandwidth even before you run out of money, and you will definitely run out of money.

      And you literally can’t in many cases when you’re dealing with messages being sent internationally.