"For me, the most serious problem is how America became so vulnerable to the assertion of blatant falsehoods that drive policy and are not corrected by the so-called immune system of democracy, a free press and a free democratic discourse."

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Al Gore

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Al Gore is an American politician and environmentalist known for his advocacy on climate change and his influential work, 'An Inconvenient Truth.'

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