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CDC data are disappearing

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breadwinner ◴[] No.42902252[source]
Data is the ultimate Fact Check. This is a President that's adamantly opposed to fact checking [1] and has even coerced Facebook to drop fact checking. Of course they don't want data on government sites that disprove their "alternate facts".

[1] https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/4920827-60-minutes-tru...

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1. pphysch ◴[] No.42902656[source]
Maybe deep in Bush Jr's admin, when Colbert said this
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2. chasing ◴[] No.42902759[source]
Certainly this sort of data isn't disappearing because it makes Trump look good.

Anyway, he's pissed about COVID-19 and instead of working to prevent future epidemics he's working to retaliate against those who embarrassed him. Pretty simple stuff. The man does not have the depth that he and his followers believe he has.

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3. ryandrake ◴[] No.42902873{3}[source]
It's pretty much as simple as this. Everything he's done so far has been a petty attempt to get revenge on people he perceives as his political enemies. This isn't some vast conspiracy to avoid fact checking. He's got a checklist of the people and institutions who he thinks made him look silly last time, and he's just going down the list. Somehow, none of this vengeance is improving the price of eggs, either.
4. breadwinner ◴[] No.42902985[source]
If you look at people who have been losing in court for lying recently, such as Rudy Giuliani, InfoWars, Fox news Dominion (settled for $787M), they are all conservatives. Maybe that proves that reality indeed has a liberal bias.
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5. naikrovek ◴[] No.42903089[source]
It’s not even a bias in that situation. Conservatives have an interest in denying reality because denying reality lets them have more of what they want.

Reality is what it is. Reality isn’t biased. It looks like a bias because of how far conservatives have pulled everyone to the right, by moving further right while demanding that everyone meet in the middle.