It started, as these things often did, with a segment on Tucker Carlson Tonight. It was August 22, 2018, and Tucker led off his show with what he called an “exclusive investigation”: the South African government, he claimed, had begun “seizing land from white farmers.”
The story was bullshit. Facing pressure (possibly from Fox News executives) Carlson h…
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