@tszzl: strongly empathize with the instinct to be skeptical when a lot of powerful parties are saying something in concert. i …
Summary
The tweet expresses skepticism about powerful entities acting in concert and emphasizes the need to verify the verifiers, predicting their growing influence in the future.
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