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In George Orwell’s famous novel Nineteen Eighty-Four, the protagonist, Winston Smith works for the state in a bureau called the Ministry of Truth. Winston’s job at the Ministry is to attend to “news items which for one reason or another it was thought necessary to alter, or, as the official phrase had it, to rectify.” More

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