You read the article title, knew the topic, (assumedly) know the show, and still dug further. That's on you, mate. Also, it's much more reddit-y to doom scroll the politics community to "relax".
They're trying to insinuate that the accusations on them are of the same legitimacy of those they've been throwing at everyone for decades.
If their claims are rebuked as baseless, they'll call the claims against them baseless as well. If the claims against them are said to be substantiated, they'll point to their claims and suggest the same. It's the "tails I win, heads you lose" of a political scheme.
For whatever reason, our brains developed the inclination/compulsion to imagine scenarios which greatly improved our odds of survival in the wild. In a biological sense, I figure stories and the like trigger that reward center in a way. Why people like different stories would come down to brain chemistry.
It's wild to watch, but I kind of get it - to some, once you're in it, the only possibility of salvation would seem to be trying to appeal to your captors/oppressors. It's faulty logic, but the instinct to survive often overrides logic.
Oh no. A program has output the thing it was prompted to output.
By the man in charge of one of the biggest social media site on the planet, who recently was spearheading governmental reform in the US. Yeah, that's news. It might not be surprising, but it's still news.
The term is pretty racist itself, since it was created to refer to tertiary countryies in the Cold War, but soon came to simultaneously suggest those countries were lesser. Calling a failing state "3rd world" just further perpetuates that.
"It bilds karacter!"