It's sad how easy it is to manipulate a harried, over-worked population. Make something up, a ton of people will read it, and by the time it's either denied or retracted the damage is already too big to undo. Not to mention far more people will have been exposed to the lie than the correction. It's a formula that's worked far too often, and will continue to do so until The Public belatedly gain a shred of political nous.
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