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Opinion: Don’t fall for data center ‘Slopaganda’

A new form of propaganda has begun to permeate and poison debates over data centers in Utah: “ slopaganda.” Left unaddressed, fear and polarization will win over facts and principles, resulting in misinformed Utahns, degraded dialogue and missed opportunities. Slopaganda refers to low-cost, AI-gene...

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Left / center-leftDon’t Want a Data Center in Your Town? You Might Be a Chinese Spy.

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Right / center-rightOpinion: Don’t fall for data center ‘Slopaganda’

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Deseret NewsOpinion · May 23, 3:00 PM

Opinion: Don’t fall for data center ‘Slopaganda’

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A new form of propaganda has begun to permeate and poison debates over data centers in Utah: “ slopaganda.” Left unaddressed, fear and polarization will win over facts and principles, resul...

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Mother JonesNews report · May 23, 11:30 AM

Don’t Want a Data Center in Your Town? You Might Be a Chinese Spy.

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Utah political consultant Gabi Finlayson was driving out of a canyon last week when she got the news that she had been accused of being a Chinese government operative. She was driving to a...

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