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[–] zedcell@lemmygrad.ml 10 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

"All over the world, wherever there are capitalists, freedom of the press means freedom to buy up newspapers, to buy writers, to bribe, buy and fake “public opinion” for the benefit of the bourgeoisie."

-- Lenin, 1921 https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1921/aug/05.htm

Still as true today as when he wrote it.