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Why we love being lied to

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Which came first: the extremist or the extremist media he consumes?

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Jun 05, 2024
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Wait, wait, wait…you’re telling me the guy who once worked for Russian state media, now spews pro-Russian and Iranian propaganda online, including a “debunking” of claims that Hamas used mass rape as a weapon on October 7, and even served as an “election observer” in a “referendum” on annexed regions of Ukraine joining Russia1 was actually on the Iranian payroll this whole time?

I just don’t know what to believe anymore, man.

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