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    THE YEAR IN MISINFORMATION

    Jan 08, 2021 4 minutes
    by GABBY DEUTCH

    FACTS DID NOT ALWAYS FLOURISH IN 2020.

    The year began with misinformation about the impeachment of President Trump from one side of the aisle—and a flurry of Democrat-funded websites posing as local news sites from the other. Soon, the internet and social media feeds were rife with myths about the origins of COVID-19, false proposed cures and misinformation about a vaccine. More recently, falsehoods about the 2020 election and the vote-counting process proliferated. ¶ With 2020 drawing to a close, NewsGuard has compiled Top 10 lists highlighting some of the most influential U.S.-based peddlers of online misinformation identified by NewsGuard’s analysts. ¶ Take, for example, , a site that has been publishing misinformation about the COVID-19 vaccine since April. According to data compiled by NewsGuard, was one of the

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