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In today’s edition, Trump supporters and opponents alike are targeting Harvard with false claims amid the university’s battles with the Trump administration and far-right social media users are baselessly labeling the fatal shooting of two Israeli embassy staffers as a “false flag” operation.
Today’s newsletter was edited by Sofia Rubinson and Eric Effron.
By Sam Howard and Nicole Dirks
What happened: Liberals and conservatives are seizing on Harvard University’s showdown with the Trump administration to level false charges advancing their respective agendas. From the left, social media users are praising the Ivy League school for supposedly launching a free course open to the public with instructions on “how to recognize a dictatorship.” And from the right, users claim that the school has embarked on a campaign to “blacklist” all Trump supporters.
Both claims are bogus.
Context: Since Donald Trump’s return to the presidency, he has repeatedly attacked Harvard, claiming it fosters antisemitism and is run by “Leftist dopes”...
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