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The crime of polluting information to control it was perhaps the most unforgivable sin of our Information Age.


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hn3438111/21/2024

Like with everything else, the internet didn't invent the crime, it just does it at scale.

https://www.fayobserver.com/story/opinion/columns/2018/09/08...

"When fake news hit Abraham Lincoln"