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The New York Times / David Leonhardt
/ Sep 18“In the mid-20th century, tens of thousands of Americans joined the John Birch Society, a far-right group that claimed Dwight Eisenhower was a secret Communist. Today, however, falsehoods can spread much more easily, through social media and a fractured news environment. In the 1950s, no major television network spread the lies about Eisenhower.” —
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conservative media,
democracy,
Fox News,
lies
