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During a TV interview last night, Trump adviser Kellyanne Conway attempted to defend her boss’s travel ban by pointing to “the Bowling Green Massacre”—. Conway tweeted that she “meant to say ‘Bowling Green terrorists,’” but her gaffe falls into a larger pattern of the Trump administration’s “alternative facts.” One true fact about the travel ban is that —though a DOJ attorney erroneously said 100,000 earlier today. That error was poorly timed, since there’s been a recent increase in fake news aimed at the biases of Trump’s detractors as well as his supporters. We talked to Brooke Binkowski ofabout and what to do about it.

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