On the feast day of St. Francis de Sales, patron of journalists, the pontiff said the “crafty serpent” in the Garden of Eden was the first promote deception: “There is no such thing as harmless disinformation;” Pope Francis added, “on the contrary, trusting in falsehood can have dire consequences.”
Pope: unmask the “snake-tactics” of fake news
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