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Kamala Harris, Donald Trump and America's long history of racist disinformation

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52% Informative

Frida Ghitis: Ida B. Wells , a Memphis editor in 1892 , muckraked the failings of the press.

She found a concerted newspaper campaign of false propaganda that encouraged lynching and then excused or covered it up, Ghitis says.

She says for centuries , what white people have said and written about communities of color was false, fantastical, unfair and often self-contradictory.

Ghitis writes that the most consequential part of the history of disinformation in America isn't episodic lying driven by pranking or profit.

Sally Kohn : Disinformation about people of color never disappeared; it has flourished on talk radio, on Fox News and on websites like Newsmax and Breitbart .

She says Donald Trump milks racial animosity regularly, hawking lies about blacks at nearly every rally.

Kohn says if Ida B. Wells were alive today , she’d be fighting for facts and challenging the dishonest schemers.

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59

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59

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12

Article tone

informal

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English

Language complexity

55

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offensive

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possibly hateful

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short-lived

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