@colinstu I can't blame you for assuming it, but I'm not talking about the US specifically.
In Germany, the nazi party is on the rise and what the media is doing is:
1. picking up their talking points
2. presenting bad or lunatic statements as opinions with equal merit as any other
3. they give them a platform where they can spread their lies
4. if fact checks happen, it's much later when nobody will see them or even care
5. framing
6. outright lies in headlines
You can also see how our media picks up the Musk incident now. In past cases they called it what it is, a nazi salute, but now it's just an "awkward gesture" or an "alleged nazi salute" that sparked "confusion" etc. I'm so sick of this.