Commentary: If Russia didn't cook up the Seth Rich conspiracy, our fake news economy would have
by Brian Boyle, Los Angeles Times
Jul 11, 2019
4 minutes
If you've paid any attention at all to politics in recent years, you've probably heard this expression at least once or twice: "We've always had differences of opinions, but back in the old days, at least we all operated off the same set of facts."
In case you were wondering why this isn't the case anymore - and why this lament for the bygone days of a unified information ecosystem is a frequent refrain for scholars, pols and pundits - look no further than the (not so) curious death of a junior Democratic National Committee staffer named Seth Rich in 2016. Courtesy of a blockbuster Yahoo News
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