Closing Statement. Disinformation: Public Enemy Number One

• Author: Scott Fulton
• Position: President
• Pages: 64-64

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One of the great things

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the regular infusion of

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given time, about 20 percent of the

staff consists of students and recent

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guaranteeing that some of the bright

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ticular actor or sector, but rather bad

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manufactured deceit can never be a

casual matter. This is a problem much

bigger than just environment, but it

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leading democracies.

The insurrection and storming of

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through the election process last fall

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or less as designed for purposes of re

solving the various questions that had

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truth for us.

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distinctive features of judicial process

that enable courts to separate truth

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expected to ground their arguments

in concrete evidence, not belief or

opinion, and to observe the duties of

candor to the court that are policed

under standards of conduct and bar

association rules. And judicial deci

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judicial error.

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credible arguments and those sup

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to decisive rejections of the numerous

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the institution that our constitutional

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truths that emerged through the pro

ceedings.

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further momentum through the echo

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of a colossal scale, as is, more gener

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of disinformation as a tool for pro

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tion is occurring through traditional

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of disinformation that damages the

public interest and threatens the foun

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understanding of objective fact. There

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

Scott Fulton

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Disinformation: Public

Enemy Number One

Closing Statement