It seems like they pretty much don't care unless you distribute the copy. There is certainly precedent for it, going back to the Betamax case in the 1980s.

That's not necessarily just a leftist thing. Plenty of politicians are perfectly fine with saying things they know are lies for what they believe are good reasons. We see it daily with the current US administration.

It's a general ideologue thing.

Transparency is also important for slowing down bad government actors.

Because it's such a great word! It names something we have all begun to see but didn't have a name for.

karl marx saw this in the 1800s; modern media just eliminated any discussion of these concepts

Wikipedia has over 7,000,000 articles, and grokipedia only about 6,000,000. Or is that not what you meant?

There was a point where I would agree with that, but we seem to be moving past that. The "truth" seems to be coming more from social media influencers than mainstream media now.

It's kind of a shit show.

> It's kind of a shit show.

Where we all have a different definition of "mainstream media".

If they don't repent, does this still work?

In addition: isn't the gut microbiome downstream from diet? If all they are measuring is what people eat, we already know that!

Research confirms a wider variety of gut contents provides better health... "By increasing the variety of your diet, you can improve your gut health and overall well being" (and) "A diet rich in these foods helps maintain microbiome diversity and can reduce the risk of several diseases, including type 2 diabetes and cardiovascular disease"

https://groundcover.grdc.com.au/innovation/industry-insights...

You might have to give up the applications you are used to, and switch to new ones. This might be easy, or it might be impossible. If all you use is the browser, easy.

It feels like America is already planning to gin up its own wars in its own hemisphere.