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Is it better to give misinformation or give none at all?

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The State? Misinformation

And that’s how you get Republicans saying that Haitians are eating pets in Ohio.
- Uriel238 [all pronouns]@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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  The Republicans who spread that rumor didn’t care whether it was true, and was looking for choice rumors to spread.
  
  It’s blood libel for the 21st century.
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  Yeah it was the pets eating ohioans but they failed to fix that news

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