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Manufacturing Outrage, One Pet at a Time
Disinformation, Hyper-Partisan Media, and the Perils of Big Tech “If I have to create stories so that the American media actually pays attention to the suffering of the American people, then that’s what I’m going to do, Dana [Bash],” Republican...
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