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How Fake News Turned Twin Falls, Idaho Upside Down – Is NewmEXIT next?
At the height of the 2016 election, exaggerated reports
of a juvenile sex crime brought a media maelstrom to
Twin Falls — one the Idaho city still hasn’t recovered from.
By CAITLIN DICKERSONS
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Expansionist Russia Promotes Division Everywhere Else
Rachel Maddow reports on the latest revelations about how Russia used social media to disrupt the 2016 U.S. election and in actively encouraging secessionist movements around the world to promote division as it tries to grow itself.
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Right-wing, anti-refugee fake news terrorizes American town
Caitlin Dickerson, national immigration reporter for The New York Times, talks with Rachel Maddow about how right-wing media, aided by Russian accounts, whipped a local story into an anti-immigrant, anti-Islam fake news crisis that terrorized residents of an Idaho town.
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