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    Beware of Facts Man

    Facts Man is less about truth than raising questions. Why can’t Facts Man talk about certain issues in exactly the way he wants to?
    by Annie Lowrey Jul 31, 2020 3 minutes
    Source: Adam Maida

    Pull down your mask, liberate your consciousness: It’s time to meet Facts Man.

    Or examine him, really. You have met Facts Man before if you have spent any time online in the past half decade or so. He’s inescapable. He podcasts. He makes YouTube videos. He traffics in Medium posts. He burns up Facebook. And he loves—loves!—Twitter.

    What does he serve up there? Truth. Facts. The overlooked and the undercovered. The unvarnished and obvious conclusions that the media do not want you to believe. The conclusions that

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