Dr. Anthony Fauci, the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), weighed in on misinformation Monday during a commencement address at Princeton University, claiming the United States has grown subject to lies, Fox News reports.
“What troubles me is that differences of opinion or ideology have in certain situations been reflected by egregious distortions of reality,” Fauci said. “Sadly, elements of our society have grown increasingly inured to a cacophony of falsehoods and lies that often stand largely unchallenged, ominously leading to an insidious acceptance of ‘what I call the ‘normalization of untruths,” he continued.
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