Every authoritarian regime fears the truth. As Nazi chief propagandist Joseph Goebbels infamously said, «If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it … the truth is the mortal enemy of the lie, and thus by extension, the truth is the greatest enemy of the state.» […]

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