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Martin Heinrich: I think one of the things we found in 2016 is that we didn't have the transparency and the literacy to do what you just…

On the recordSeptember 4, 2018
I think one of the things we found in 2016 is that we didn't have the transparency and the literacy to do what you just pointed out there: to counter false speech with accurate speech to understand how this speech was propagating in the digital public space.
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Martin Heinrich
Democratic · New Mexico

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Heinrich emphasizes the need for transparency to combat misinformation.

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