(Short Cuts) We Need to Talk About Kevin Vuong
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The Liberal Party's Disinformation Policy
The policy came about as a result of a workshop on disinformation that they were having in their little writing meeting and it was kind of like a brainstorming session. Catherine Evans told me that the intent behind this was actually not journalism per se but it was more thinking about stuff like COVID-19 conspiracies or health misinformation. She brought up Ivermectin for example like she had an anecdote about how someone sent her an article about IvermECTin and asked her to check it out so that's the kind of stuff that they were concerned about. But what I find problematic and maybe concerning is that somehow this policy which is just sort of really badly constructed badly worded has somehow
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