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Wallace: Republicans Must Assert the Truth before They’re Allowed to Share Any Other Views

‘If we can protect against counterfeit dollar bills, we should be able to protect against fake news’

EXCERPT:

WALLACE: "When two former West Wing staffers talk, we always talk in lists, you gave me three things I want to respond to. Let me start with your last point, about Republicans telling the truth. It would be my policy that a Republican must assert the truth before they’re allowed to share any other views. And Lindsey Graham, I understand, appeared somewhere today and refused to really go far enough in beating down the lie. I want to read you something Tom Friedman wrote, though, about social media companies. He writes this: 'Mark Zuckerberg and Sheryl Sandberg have to surprise us by once and for all stopping the elevation for profit of news that divides and enrages over more authoritative evenhanded news sources.' That does not seem out of reach. If we can protect against counterfeit dollar bills, we should be able to protect against fake news, that we now know has the potential to kill people as it did two weeks ago."

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