For those journalists who seek truth and take seriously their role to facilitate democracy,it is vital to expose deception and masquerading voicesFakery has long infected public debate in democracies, particularly during election campaigns, or with effects hard to gauge.
In the UK in 1924,the fake “Zinoviev letter” fuelled a Russia scare different from todays concerns. It is thought to bear greatly harmed the then Labour government’s chances of re-election when the letter was reported as authentic in the Daily Mail just before polling day.
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Source: guardian.co.uk