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No. 27: We Don’t Know What “Fake News” Really Is

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January 19, 2023 1:13 p.m.

We talk a lot about “fake news” and “misinformation.” But we don’t really know quite what it is or how it functions. And that means we don’t understand some elemental realities about the 21st century political world. That’s the subject...

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