"Official government lying from the top has gone viral. It kills democracy as surely as the Spanish flu, which in 1918 claimed 50 million lives and afflicted 10 times that number. False, weaponized and dysfunctional information will wreak even more havoc, literally affecting everyone on the planet."
"Weak watchdogs and lax social media bred a pandemic of dishonesty. We need new laws."
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The only ultimate cure is a society that has mainstreamed science-based thinking and marginalized magical thinking:
Lying Politicians Are Killing Our Democracies
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