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Trump Justice Department’s Russia Investigation Was Actual Witch Hunt
Sorry, but even in this age of goldfish-mind news cycles, we can not let a specific development from final week to just fade into obscurity. You could recall that Donald Trump, American president, beloved to say the investigation into no matter whether his marketing campaign coordinated with Russia’s effort and hard work to impact the 2016 election was a “witch hunt” pursued by shadowy bureaucrats with an ax to grind. In his telling, that investigation was opened for political causes, with no justification, and that’s why it dragged on for good and ultimately concluded with Special Counsel Robert Mueller declaring “NO COLLUSION!” and taking pictures off a bunch of confetti…
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With public health on the line, here’s how local health departments are fighting misinformation
Oklahoma City KHN — By the summer of 2021, Phil Maytubby, deputy CEO of the health department here, was concerned to see the numbers of people getting vaccinated against covid-19 slipping after an initially robust response. With doubt, fear, and misinformation running rampant nationwide — both online and offline — he knew the agency needed to rethink its messaging strategy. So, the health department conducted something called an online “sentiment search,” which gauges how certain words are perceived on social media. The tool found that many people in Oklahoma City didn’t like the word “vaccinate” — a term featured prominently in the health department’s marketing campaign. “If you don’t know…
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