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<em>The Atlantic</em> Daily: The Memo and the Media

Fake-news accusations, immigration raids, Red Scare lessons, and more.
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What We’re Following

One of today’s biggest stories was the AP report—based on a leaked draft memo—that the Trump administration was considering deploying the National Guard to round up unauthorized immigrants.The memo was real, but the White House denied it, and the saga that unfolded illustrated how the administration’s combat with the media . That was a major theme of Trump’s press conference yesterday—and it’s complicated by the fact that coverage of the conference was . A new manifesto from Facebook, where millions of people get their news, includes some effort to solve the problem—but.

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