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I'm worried about this too. Western media loves picking the most emotionally triggering narrative and running with it, doesn't matter if it's misleading or outright false.
Realistically, if MSM wants to start smearing the fediverse they can always find an excuse. I don't think Trump using open source to make stuff really changes anything. I imagine that their platform isn't actually going to federate with anyone either, it's just a way to leverage existing work.
Hopefully every major instance blacklists both them and anyone they federate with. Having it entirely non-federating would be better though.
That's basically what happened with Gab, and don't see why people would do anything different here.