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From printing presses to Facebook feeds: What yesterday's witch hunts have in common with today's misinformation crisis

Witch hunts from 1400 to 1780 in Europe involved around 100,000 prosecutions, primarily of women, and resulted in approximately 50,000 executions.

Gutenberg's printing press was a transformative invention that reshaped medieval Europe and had global implications.

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