Yet Russians were not born yesterday: opinion polls show that most believe the government knows all that there is to be known about the disaster, but has no intention of making it public.

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In sum, it appears Googleopoly has grown so accustomed to being able to dictate to everyone which information they should accept as most relevant, that they have scant self-awareness when their message does not pass the laugh test with a principled audience that was not born yesterday.

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