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Is terrorism the greatest threat to our country, or a recession? I suggest to you today that the quickest, most direct way to ruin a democracy is to poison the information.

— Scott Pelley

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In a world where everyone is a publisher, no one is an editor and that is the danger we face today.

Making social media liable would mean Twitter, Facebook, even Wkipedia and Yelp couldn't exist as we know them

In what year will the human population grow too large for the Earth to sustain? The answer is about 1970, according to research by the World Wildlife Fund. In 1970, the planet's 3 and a half billion people were sustainable. But on this New Year's Day, the population is 8 billion. Today, wild plants and animals are running out of places to live.

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