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  "path": "/2026/04/06/jacob-siegels-error-filled-book-on-censorship-got-fact-checked-hes-calling-it-censorship/",
  "publishedAt": "2026-04-06T16:25:00.000Z",
  "site": "https://www.techdirt.com",
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    "censorship industrial complex",
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  "textContent": "Fact-checking is not censorship. Asking a publication to correct factual errors is not censorship. Pointing out that someone’s book contains demonstrably false claims is not censorship. None of this should require explanation. And yet here we are, because author Jacob Siegel has decided that Renee DiResta requesting corrections to false statements he made about her […]",
  "title": "Jacob Siegel’s Error-Filled Book On ‘Censorship’ Got Fact-Checked. He’s Calling It Censorship."
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