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THE NEW RIGHT-WING SMEAR MACHINE
HAYES, CHRISTOPHER | November 12, 2007 issue

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The article alleges that the right-wing in the U.S. is using emails to spread misinformation to advance their agenda and to smear their liberal rivals. Staffers of Democratic or liberal politicians are finding it difficult to counteract false claims made in non-traditional media like email. A large number of these emails are communicated by forwarding, in which someone receives an email that they are encouraged to read and forward.

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COMMON fallacies; PROPAGANDA; ELECTRONIC mail messages; RIGHT & left (Political science); INTERNET -- Social aspects; LIBEL & slander; UNITED States -- Politics & government -- 2001-2009; UNITED States
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