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BBC has launched yet another project to fight what it sees as the great evil of our time so-called disinformation.
New BBC Verify project reflects the cultural elites’ paranoid fear of free speech.
It’s no exaggeration to say that the BBC is obsessed by the alleged threat of disinformation.
BBC Verify will have 60 journalists at its disposal.
The truth is the precise opposite: the death toll from weather events has actually fallen considerably in recent decades.
Unlike the crankish theories about vaccines and QAnon, these apocalyptic claims about the climate really do have a wide reach and are readily believed.
According to a recent survey, more than half of teenagers think the world will end in their lifetime.
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