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Fake Think Tanks Fuel Fake News—And the President’s Tweets

Business, Spoken

English - January 25, 2017 09:50 - 12 minutes - ★★★★ - 16 ratings
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Fake news isn’t just Macedonian teenagers or internet trolls.A longstanding network of bogus “think tanks” raise disinformation to a pseudoscience, and their studies’ pull quotes and flashy stats become the “evidence” driving viral, fact-free stories. Not to mention President Trump’s tweets. These organizations have always existed: they’re old-school propagandists with new-school, tech-savvy reach.
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Fake news isn’t just Macedonian teenagers or internet trolls.A longstanding network of bogus “think tanks” raise disinformation to a pseudoscience, and their studies’ pull quotes and flashy stats become the “evidence” driving viral, fact-free stories. Not to mention President Trump’s tweets. These organizations have always existed: they’re old-school propagandists with new-school, tech-savvy reach.

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