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As anybody with experience in this area knows, connivers, fanatics, and loons can launch falsehoods far faster than decent, honest, sane people can refute them.<\/p>\n
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\u00a0 \u00a0 A reporter who had tried to keep up with, and debunk, fake Internet stories and bogus Web claims\u00a0gives up: \u00a0 https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/the-intersect\/wp\/2015\/12\/18\/what-was-fake-on-the-internet-this-week-why-this-is-the-final-column\/ \u00a0 As anybody with experience in this area knows, connivers, fanatics, and loons can launch falsehoods far faster than decent, honest, sane people can refute them. \u00a0 Posted from Richmond, Virginia \u00a0 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1019,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29256","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"\n
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