June 14th, 2022. Special Brief: The History of Fake News.
The President's Daily Brief
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Is It Even Possible to Stop Disinformation?
The biden administration and its department of homeland security have set up a disinformation governance board. I covered in a previous brief that there are some odd and even alarming issues with this development, from the very partisan leadership of the new board to a peculiar focus on joe byden's handling of illegal emigration. But i want to take you back to the late 18 hundreds and early 19 hundreds when two men - joseph pollitzer and william randolph hurst - were arguably America's leading newsmen. In order to build their readership, they did some bad things,. For for example, they fabricated interviews with experts, they promoted sensational crime stories. And most especially, they put
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