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by vannevar 2008 days ago
It’s far worse to accidentally suppress the truth than to share a lie. Falsehoods will reveal themselves in time because of the very fact that they are not true.

The problem is that we are learning this is not true. Falsehoods can come so fast that the truth never becomes known. https://news.mit.edu/2018/study-twitter-false-news-travels-f...

A lot has changed since 1789, and there is no reason not to re-examine the assumptions that were made then in light of technological developments over the past two centuries plus.