California was on fire. It was January 2025, and Gavin Newsom was battling the spread of misinformation online. Some of the hottest flames were being stoked by our troller in chief, Donald Trump, who wrote on Truth Social, “Governor Gavin Newscum refused to sign the water restoration declaration put before him that would have allowed millions of gallons of water, from excess rain and snow melt from the North, to flow daily into many parts of California, including the areas that are currently burning in a virtually apocalyptic way.” None of that was exactly true.

As the fires raged, the governor’s office struggled to reach citizens with accurate information, as their feeds were clogged, per The New York Times , with “social media posts [that] falsely claimed the Hollywood sign was

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