Because they wanted to misinform you, to steal an election.
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By pretending otherwise, Trump's boosters on Fox misinform their viewers...
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Staying ahead of their ability to misinform users is what matters.
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Storytellers also have the opportunity to misconstrue truths, fabricate histories, and misinform.
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For eight years, the Republicans did little but stir anger, misinform and divide.
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The point of modern propaganda isn't only to misinform or push an agenda.
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Elements of the campaign resemble the information operations Russia has deployed to misinform and polarize voters.
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But it also means that it's knowingly creating a platform where people can misinform each other.
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I believe it is reprehensible to misinform the American public that the CPP is climate legislation.
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It can misinform decision-making, raise stress levels, keep us up at night and erode our happiness.
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Fox News anchor Shepard Smith says "history will poorly reflect" on journalists "who intentionally misinform" the public.
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Disinformation campaigns could seek to misinform voters in an effort to deter them from casting a ballot.
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Yet they still serve the same age-old purposes: to inform and persuade — and, occasionally, to misinform.
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Let it stay up and potentially misinform voters, or take it down because it flirts with disinformation?
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Republicans shouldn't be willing to trick and misinform voters to win a political battle, but they choose to.
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"The mayor used his time on the soapbox to misinform the public about our Medicaid reforms," Mr. Mujica said.
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Today he supports, albeit waveringly, the opposite: Those who willingly lie and misinform at great scale should be silenced.
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" Lemon said he would not "aid and abet the people who are trying to misinform you … by creating a diversion.
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" -- FLASHBACK: Gary Kasparov tweeted in December 2016: "The point of modern propaganda isn't only to misinform or push an agenda.
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The thing the platforms are missing, according to Wardle, is the coordinated campaign used to spread the video and misinform people.
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"It's an attempt to misinform the international community ahead of a meeting of the U.N. Security Council" on Yemen, he said.
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After all, they have banks, hospitals, and energy companies to privatize, and an electorate to misinform in time for next spring's elections.
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Those incidents and others like them reflect ongoing efforts by Russians to misinform and intimidate civilians and troops in Europe and abroad.
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They misinform one another about whether they intend to nap, or they press on when they see a rival catching a snooze.
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What's often misunderstood about propaganda is its intent: the point isn't to misinform — it's to get people to question what's real, what's provable.
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And what we have seen in the last few years is a concerted effort to mislead, misinform gun owners by the gun lobby.
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You want to reserve the word lie for when you have reason to think that the speaker is actually deliberately seeking to misinform.
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Prosecutors stated that McFarland faked documents to misinform investors (and a literal ticket company) about the event, to the tune of $26 million.
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With any system that can convincingly generate fake content, there's the concern that it will be used to intentionally and harmfully misinform its viewers.
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But there's little doubt that campaigns to misinform the public during a critical time are intentional and use similar tactics from year to year.
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A counterargument is that millions of dollars are spent in elections — including public money in many places — in ways that alienate and misinform voters.
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Comparisons to actual foreign intelligence networks that have threatened their country's democracy, like Turkey's infamous "deep state," serve more to misinform than anything else.
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When foreign intelligence services want to misinform American voters, they mostly rely on Americans to do the work of spreading their messages for free.
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In January the platform said it would no longer recommend videos that misinform users in harmful ways, like certain conspiracy theories and quack medical cures.
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Without that trust, he said, political parties, internet trolls and regular citizens would continue to use social media to misinform the public and erode democracy.
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Some people are cashing in on the coronavirus outbreak by selling books on Amazon about the virus, but the books could mislead or misinform readers.
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However, you'd be right to worry that "borderline content and content that could misinform users in harmful ways" is an extremely broad and poorly defined mandate.
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But a minister in the Yemeni government backed by Saudi Arabia dismissed the Iran-aligned Houthis' pullout as a "show" meant to "misinform the international community".
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At Google, ads and YouTube videos that misinform people about when or how to take part in the census are banned, per a Wednesday blog post.
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Even hard-line conservatives who exalt the military questioned its competence and what they called the deliberate decisions by senior military officials to misinform the public.
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It assumes that consumers will have perfect information and not be manipulated by millions of dollars in ad-buys and other tactics designed to misinform and deceive.
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Consumers need a clearer understanding of how Beijing is using social media apps owned by Chinese companies, as well as American platforms, to learn, censor, and misinform.
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A piece on how viral junk election news stories outperformed real news on Facebook shed light on how much Facebook Pages were being used to misinform biased audiences.
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U.S. intelligence and lawmakers have said social media misinformation campaigns that started during the 2016 elections and have continued through now seek to misinform and divide the electorate.
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Opponents of the proposal have also filed another complaint about whether the deceptive tactics were part of a coordinated effort to deceive and misinform voters, the AP reported.
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It is an example of selective data skewed to support false statements by an organization that's sole business objective is to misinform the public on Amazon's safety record.
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" Wojcicki also stressed YouTube's efforts to improve its video suggestions, including a move announced in January to reduce recommendations for "borderline content that could misinform users in harmful ways.
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It's these kinds of attacks — ones that disrupt and misinform without causing harm to civilians or critical infrastructure — that have politicians struggling to come up with a proper response.
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Crisis pregnancy centers like Obria are able to utilize Google's powerful ecosystem to mislead and misinform pregnant women—these organizations have exploited both Google's Maps and search engine functions.
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In the past month: YouTube announced it will begin reducing recommendations of borderline content and content that could misinform users in harmful ways, including videos promoting anti-vaccination content.
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Even though these images were surely part of Putin's propaganda campaign to manipulate, misinform, and confuse people in other countries, media outlets all over the world lapped it up.
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We build media business ecologies to tell us the truth, and they get so carried away with their incentives that they systematically misinform us to better grab our attention.
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But the real issue arises if a politician were to say something they know to be untrue without acknowledging it, so as to secretly and intentionally misinform the public.
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YouTube also said it aims to reduce the recommendations of what YouTube deems "borderline content" or videos that could misinform users in harmful ways — including false information about coronavirus.
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"Manipulation of our brand and intellectual property with the specific intent to misinform the public is an incredibly serious problem that platforms need to urgently address," the spokesperson said.
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Late last month, Google-owned YouTube announced it would stop recommending "borderline content and content that could misinform users in harmful ways," but wouldn't tell Gizmodo what that meant exactly.
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Republicans in the State Senate will oppose, stall, misinform and beat back any threat to their livelihood, which is to carry out the wishes of corporations and the entitled class.
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Schiff applauded YouTube for its recent move to start restricting recommendations for videos "that could misinform users in harmful ways," which YouTube told The Guardian will include certain anti-vaccine videos.
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"Technology like dashboard cameras and body cameras can be very helpful, but when used by itself technology can also mislead and misinform, which causes other issues and problems within our community," Gov.
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"Technology like dashboard cameras and body cameras can be very helpful, but when used by itself technology can also mislead and misinform, which causes other issues and problems within our community," McCrory said.
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When the election was called, the Russians were asked -- sign of the times -- whether they intended to hack and misinform their way into this one as they did the American and French elections.
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The past week provided fresh examples of how journalists endlessly seeking to portray the Russia probe in black-and-white terms can misinform the public through omission, cherry-picking or lack of context.
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The Times invites readers to help debunk fake news on Election Day by submitting any stories, social media posts or memes you see that aim to purposely misinform, hoax or frighten the public.
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The big difference here is that Pizzagate was a story birthed by the internet and distributed widely by Facebook, which made it a good example of the social network's ability to misinform the public.
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In case you don't want to completely misinform your followers, however, Instagram will still offer stickers that let you stamp the date when the photo or video was originally taken to add as context.
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YouTube: The company announced last month it will begin reducing recommendations of borderline content and content that could misinform users in harmful ways, including videos promoting a phony miracle cure for a serious illness.
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"We do not find it right for the United States to claim it had received assurances from Turkey and misinform the U.S. and Turkish publics," the Turkish Embassy in Washington said in a statement.
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"They misinform people with regards to how buying a 'fixer-upper' works because unless you're paying with cash, finding a house $100,000 under budget doesn't create $100,000 of cash for you to renovate with."
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In a blog post, YouTube said it would no longer suggest videos with "borderline content" or those that "misinform users in a harmful way" even if the footage did not violate its community guidelines.
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HANNITY: But the dossier, thinking about the dossier that she paid for and the fact that the FBI paid Steele, it was designed to misinform the American people with Russian lies to influence the election.
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Snapchat was still decades away, but the athletes instantly created one of the iconic images of the 1960s, to be endlessly reproduced in retrospectives on a decade that continues to inform (and misinform) our politics.
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A spokesperson said the company is focused on reducing recommendations of "borderline content or videos that could misinform users in harmful ways," such as anti-vaccination messages or 9/11 conspiracies, and nothing in Dawson's video qualifies.
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"It is an example of selective data skewed to support false statements by an organization that's sole business objective is to misinform the public on Amazon's safety record," wrote Amazon spokesperson Rachael Lighty in a statement to Vox.
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They are the ones that tried to propagandize, misinform the American people, all to affect an election, and to this day, they still are, and to this day, breaking their own government policies that they signed off on.
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"Just like any stereotype, these representations are usually dehumanizing, and they misinform the general public about what sex workers are really like," wrote Tina Horn, a former sex worker, in a 2016 story about sex work for Refinery29.
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While Twitter acknowledged the presence of some of this content on its network, Del Harvey, Twitter's vice president of trust and safety, said the company has not seen "large-scale, coordinated" efforts to misinform people about the coronavirus.
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Schiff's letter noted that he "was pleased" to see YouTube's announcement in January that it would no longer recommend videos that violate its community guidelines, including "content that could misinform users in harmful ways," according to the announcement.
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" The California Legislature found that the roughly 200 centers in the state used "intentionally deceptive advertising and counseling practices that often confuse, misinform and even intimidate women from making fully informed, time-sensitive decisions about critical health care.
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However they also warn of the risks of "lies and manipulations" being dumped onto these platforms in a deliberate attempt to misinform the public and skew opinions and democratic outcomes — suggesting regulation to prevent abuse of bots may be necessary.
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Maskirovka is "designed to manipulate the adversary's picture of reality, misinform it and eventually interfere with the decision-making process of individuals, organizations, governments and societies," Dima Adamsky, an authority on Russian psychological warfare, wrote in a paper published last year.
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During the hearing, both Warner and Burr also revealed new examples of efforts on Facebook carried out by the Internet Research Agency, a Kremlin-linked "troll farm" that has created and disseminated digital content with the intent to misinform Americans.
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"At this moment, the occupant of the White House ... and his allies are doing everything that they can to distance themselves and misinform the public from the monsters that they created that is terrorizing the Jewish community and the Muslim community," Omar said.
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And while there no doubt are various innovative coverage formats that could be used to fact-check the speech or otherwise detract from Trump's tendency to deliberately misinform the public, there is no indication that any of them are going to be used.
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But academic studies and congressional reports have found that Twitter hosted wide-ranging disinformation campaigns by foreign actors during the 2016 U.S. presidential election, and the platform has continued to disclose data around coordinated efforts to misinform or mislead users on the platform.
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Our research details, among other things, how much Exxon Mobil knew about the dangers posed to the planet from carbon emissions from its products at the same time it was spending millions to misinform the public about the science of climate change.
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Any nationalism worth its salt would see Russia's interference in the 2016 election, which involved the illegal hacking of a major American party and attempts to misinform the American electorate through social media, as an unacceptable form of interference with American sovereignty.
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California lawmakers had found that the centers used "intentionally deceptive advertising and counseling practices that often confuse, misinform, and even intimidate women from making fully-informed, time-sensitive decisions about critical health care" -- attempting ultimately to push them to carry their pregnancies to term.
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It is a mystery why Trump even bothered to attend the G-7 summit over the weekend, except for the opportunities it presents to deliberately misinform the American people about what the United States is or is not doing on issues of international concern.
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"We'll begin reducing recommendations of borderline content and content that could misinform users in harmful ways—such as videos promoting a phony miracle cure for a serious illness, claiming the earth is flat, or making blatantly false claims about historic events like 9/11," the company wrote.
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"We'll begin reducing recommendations of borderline content and content that could misinform users in harmful ways — such as videos promoting a phony miracle cure for a serious illness, claiming the earth is flat, or making blatantly false claims about historic events like 9/11," it said.
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"We'll begin reducing recommendations of borderline content and content that could misinform users in harmful ways — like videos promoting a phony miracle cure for a serious illness, claiming the earth is flat, or making blatantly false claims about historic events like 9/11," the company said in a statement.
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The O'Reilly post pushed audiences to a short snippet of a Lemon segment from the previous evening, a clip featuring the anchor's pledge to not "aid and abet" those trying to misinform the American people through claims that Donald Trump or his team had been surveilled, or spied upon.
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YouTube's blog post does note that the evaluators are "trained using public guidelines"—specifically the 160+ page Google Search Quality Evaluator Guidelines, which does supply definitions for "Pages that Potentially Misinform Users" and "Pages that Potentially Deceive Users," though its unclear how much of that guide is applicable to YouTube.
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" In response to Reuters' questions, a spokesman for Duterte's office, Martin Andanar, said: "We do not have any personal issues with any reporter... However, any form of deliberate attempt to misinform the public is an attack to the efforts of the administration to deliver what is due to the Filipino people.
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"Despite having been addressed earlier, we do not find it right for the United States to claim it had received assurances from Turkey and misinform U.S. and Turkish publics," the Turkish Embassy said in a statement, adding it had serious concerns regarding the cases of Turkish nationals in the United States.
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" Martha Rosler, a photographer and video artist, was among about 0003 people who signed an open letter saying they were troubled by the decision to "hire an anti-union firm to sow fear and hostility and to misinform both management and staff about the role of unions in the workplace.
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And wasn&apost the phony dossier that Hillary and the DNC paid for, wasn&apost that full of Russian lies to, and it was used to misinform the American people to get a FISA warrant as your memo pointed out, the Grassley-Graham memo pointed out, the bulk of information for the FISA?
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He accurately notes that trust in the media is at an all-time low and that people don't believe what they read in the news anymore — which, by the way, is the whole point of propaganda: not to misinform but to undermine belief in the existence of a shared reality — but he is entirely wrong about the solution.
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Though researchers do suggest poor health journalism can misinform the public, this count does not include articles from legitimate news outlets that may reach false conclusions, cover flawed studies or inflate the findings of single studies, as is often the case with conflicting news articles concerning the health benefits of red wine, chocolate and coffee, for instance.
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Mr. Mueller, do your job tonight, if you care about truth, if you care about justice, if you care about the system of justice in this country being abused at this high level, if you care that somebody actually paid for Russian lies to misinform the American people and that information was spread by some of the highest levels of our government.
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"Over the last year we've worked to better surface credible news sources across our site for people searching for news-related topics, begun reducing recommendations of borderline content and videos that could misinform users in harmful ways, and introduced information panels to help give users more sources where they can fact check information for themselves," a spokesperson told BuzzFeed News via email.
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Sadly though, exercise is not a weight loss drug, and so long as we continue to push exercise primarily (and sadly sometimes exclusively) in the name of preventing or treating adult or childhood obesity, we'll also continue to short-change the public about the genuinely incredible health benefits of exercise, and simultaneously misinform them about the realities of long term weight management.
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And only last month YouTube said it would reduce recommendations of what it dubbed "borderline content" and content that "could misinform users in harmful ways," citing examples such as videos promoting a fake miracle cure for a serious illness, or claiming the earth is flat, or making "blatantly false claims" about historic events such as the 9/11 terrorist attack in New York.
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In our political climate, as Republicans promise to repeal the Affordable Care Act and as Democrats debate the merits of a single-payer system versus an expanded version of Obamacare, it is discomforting to see that Big Pharma is keeping its watchful eye on the proverbial ball: manipulate public opinion, misinform patients about alternatives, drive up prices and privatize well-being through fear.
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The "international media center" for the summit was abruptly moved out of the Meliá Hotel because that's where Kim is staying... (NYT) -- WaPo's Tuesday scoop: "The U.S. military blocked Internet access to an infamous Russian entity seeking to sow discord among Americans during the 2018 midterms, several U.S. officials said..." (WaPo) -- Far-right troll Jacob Wohl bragged to USA Today about his plans to use social networking sites to misinform people about the 2020 elections.
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