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Beyond the points others have already made, I suggest running the following prompt in ChatGPT. I like to run similar queries when faced with any news article these days, crypto-related or otherwise. It weeds out 90% of slanted articles so that I don't need to read them.

I also wish all journalists would run such a prompt on their own articles prior to publication, to save everyone time and attention.

Prompt:
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Here is the content of a news article:

<paste the article text here>

Answer the following questions:

- Does the article make any logical fallacies? Point them out with specific quotes.
- Does the article employ any emotive conjugation? Point them out with specific quotes.
- Is the article merely presenting facts, or is it weaving a specific narrative? Explain.
- If the article is trying to weave a narrative, does it fail to bring up any inconvenient truths that would undermine such narrative?
- What would a solid counter-argument to this article look like?

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