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But replacing false ideas with true ones is precisely what transformative figures do, and certainly what Rand, who firmly believed in the power of reason and truth, was hoping to do.
FORBES: Magazine Article
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Some Tumblr users are seeing their pages replaced with several dozen duplicate posts from a known hacker group, warning that deleting said message will delete the Tumblr page in question (it's unclear if this is actually true, but seems to be false in our testing).
ENGADGET: Hacker group rewriting Tumblr pages into a racist, anti-gay screed (update: Tumblr says it's fixed)
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But a popular pastime is to spread news and rumours, both true and false, that challenge the official script of government officials and state-propaganda organs.
ECONOMIST: The power of microblogs
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The first is true (I resigned as foreign minister because of that) but the second is false.
ECONOMIST: Letters
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So, OK. We tell and retell the true and false legends of Knute Rockne and winning one for the Gipper and all that, but we don't really mind.
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