• MangioneDontMiss@lemmy.ca
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    2 months ago

    Newsmax made almost 50 million in revenue just in the second quarter of 2025. You can almost guarantee they made far more money profiting off their lies, than they’re about to lose. This is good business for them. These lawsuits need to start being in the billions and not in the millions.

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    This won’t stop as long as it’s just a price of doing business.

    Throw a CEO and hosts in jail for a decade tho, and it’ll suddenly be less common for the media to blatantly lie about shit.

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          I’m sure the legislative branch controlled by Republicans will get right on that

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            2 months ago

            The Democrats would never do that either. This is a capitalist dictatorship problem; both parties are owned by, and answer, to it.

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        There’s criminal charges for yelling “fire” in a crowded building with no fire…

        Why shouldn’t there be criminal charges for intentionally lying an election was stolen which lead to a literal coup attempt?

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          There’s actually several scenarios where you can yell fire in a crowded theater

          Regardless, they are 2 completely separate situations. Until leadership gets serious about white collar crime, we’re stuck with what we have