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Misinformation isn't just on the right

Leftists and even moderates have their own problems

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Matthew Yglesias
Feb 27, 2023
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I don’t have any specific commentary to offer on the recent meltdown at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government centered on misinformation expert Joan Donovan.

But the incident seems like a good opportunity to write about my annoyance at the way the “misinformation” construct has been wielded in the Trump era as a kind of partisan cudgel and all-purpose e…

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