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Posted on February 6, 2017October 7, 2017 by Mark R. Stoneman

Assault on Facts and Credibility

All administrations lie, but what we are seeing here is an attack on credibility itself.

The Russian dissident and chess grandmaster Garry Kasparov drew upon long familiarity with that process when he tweeted: “The point of modern propaganda isn’t only to misinform or push an agenda. It is to exhaust your critical thinking, to annihilate truth.”

– Charles J. Sykes, ”Why Nobody Cares the President Is Lying,“ New York Times, February 4, 2017

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