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Flooding the Disinformation Superhighway 0

At the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Gene Collier suggests that the liars are winning, benefiting from the “liar’s dividend.” What is the “liar’s dividend”? In his article, he defines it (emphasis added):

First described by law professors Bobby Chesney and Danielle Citron in 2018, it says that when a culture becomes awash in lies and disinformation, the liar benefits from the public’s diminished ability to identify actual truth. The liar’s dividend, of course, is metastasizing as the unscrupulous seize advantage of the described uncertainty.

Methinks he has a point. Read the full piece and decide.

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