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facebook Facebook's new Fact-Checking policies have carved out an exemption for climate deniers Thom Dunn
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fraud Congressional Budget Office will (eventually) investigate the millions of fraudulent anti-Net Neutrality comments sent to the FCC Cory Doctorow
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