Ms Carmichael explained that the girl was personally responsible for posting the images and continued posting on a new page after her father shut the original down.

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In it, Sinclair described how, immediately after the Democratic Convention, the Los Angeles Times began running on its front page a box with an Upton Sinclair quotation in it, a practice that the paper continued, every day, for six weeks, until the opening of the polls.

NEWYORKER: The Lie Factory