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Deactivating Facebook for just a few weeks reduces belief in fake news (english.elpais.com)
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[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Yes, I figured but… isn’t that a bit too obvious? Surely there had to be a less blatant way of laundering money than… a treetop walk with no trees?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

It's also lazy and they're used to not getting investigated or even called out. But even if prosecution is high and you're not lazy you get corrupt politicians doing blatantly obvious stuff like the mask scandal in Germany, making a fortune of selling FFP2 masks at ludicrous markups to the state: Their behaviour was not technically illegal (laws got adjusted since then), the only one who got prosecuted got prosecuted for tax evasion, not corruption.