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Disinformation is flourishing amid this unrest. It’s crucial to root out the distortions. | The Washington Post
By Editorial Board on June 2, 2020
“WHERE ARE the protesters?” asked several accounts on Twitter early Monday morning, after most Washingtonians had gone to bed and the Web-waves had quieted. Using the hashtag #DCblackout, they claimed that communications downtown had been blocked to cover up police violence. Then came a series of suspicious missives in identical language declaring that all was well — spurring more concern among observers that something fishy really was afoot.
The entire thing was a ploy, carried out through fraudulent accounts and designed, it appears, to instill panic.
