After Math: The fix is in

It was a difficult week for the truth -- and not just how the president coerced a four-star general to lie about the sentiments he made to a grieving war widow. More than half of tech experts now doubt we can fix the "fake news" problem, Congress rolled out a new bill to make online political ads more transparent, Google served "fake ads" to fact-checking news sites, and the NFL teamed up with TicketMaster to take down scalpers. Numbers, because how else will you measure what little integrity you have left?

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136,000

That's how many followers the Russian-backed troll account, @Tenn_GOP, was able to acquire in the 9 months between its creation and Twitter banning it. This is, of course, despite the fact that the real Tennessee GOP repeatedly warned the company about the imposter. 

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