Commentary: How the tobacco industry wrote the ‘fake news’ playbook
In case you didn’t know, there’s a website dedicated to 14 million documents that expose the tobacco industry’s history of lying, manipulation and propaganda.
Anna Bueno
Writer, researcher, and lawyer in Metro Manila, Philippines.
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