Mainstream media no longer tried to ignore the power of social media, instead, using the crowd-sourced information to feed (and in some cases mislead) their audiences.

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The fake Firefox information attached to the FinFisher software was "deliberately designed to be read and mislead, " said Simon Ayrton, a partner at specialist intellectual property law firm Powell Gilbert.

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This is utterly absurd, and only serves to mislead the public, as well as policymakers, who desperately need accurate information about hydraulic fracturing in order to make good public policy decisions related to it.

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There had been no intention to mislead parliament - but his comments had been wrong, based upon a misinterpretation placed by him upon information he had received immediately before entering the chamber.

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