r/technology 23d ago

Social Media Reddit Is Restricting Luigi Mangione Discourse—but It’s Even Weirder Than That: The website is attacking the users that made it the front page of the internet.

https://web.archive.org/web/20250313203719/https://slate.com/technology/2025/03/reddit-elon-musk-luigi-mangione-censorship.html
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u/zutnoq 22d ago

Regarding "lying", this is because that would clearly be insinuating that they are doing it knowingly and on purpose in order to manipulate—which would likely open you and/or your network up to being sued for defamation/libel. "Bullshit" on the other hand is really only claiming that they're mistaken.

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u/RoguePlanet2 22d ago

It seems to me that "bullshit" is an opinion about the quality of the info, whereas "lying" is an accusation. That's how I hear it, anyway!