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I think the vaccine analogy is really helpful here. You can make true statements, like "vaccines can kill you", that cause massive public harm if they're not correctly contextualized.

People come away thinking "vaccines are bad". In this case, the Guardian put the tech equivalent of "vaccines can kill you" in a headline.




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