Naomi Klein’s doppelganger

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Naomi Klein’s doppelganger

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When the author Naomi Klein began being mistaken for Naomi Wolf it set her off on a quest to examine the slippery nature of truth in the post-pandemic world. Help support our independent journalism at theguardian.com/infocus

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