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The problem with facts: do we really want true news?

26 mins | Mar 11, 2018

No one likes fake news and no one likes a politician who tells lies. But sometimes the people don’t really want the facts either. Tim Harford writing in the Financial Times in March 2017, reveals how those in power deal with inconvenient truths.

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