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On the recordJanuary 7, 2020
Disinformation is not a new problem. It was also an issue 130 years ago when Joseph Pulitzer and the New York World and William Randolph Hearst and The New York Journal led the age of, quote, 'yellow journalism.'
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Cathy McMorris Rodgers
Republican · Washington

Editor's note · Context

Comparison of current online disinformation to historical yellow journalism.

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