Thomas Jefferson
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You know well that government always kept a kind of standing army of newswriters who, without any regard to truth or to what should be like truth, invented and put into the papers whatever might serve the [government] ministers. This suffices with the mass of the people who have no means of distinguishing the false from the true paragraphs of a newspaper. ✨ Thomas Jefferson (1829). Memoir, correspondence and miscellanies from the papers of Thomas Jefferson, p.343

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