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"If a nation expects to be ignorant and free...
it expects what never was and what never will be."

— Thomas Jefferson (1816)

Who said, "Americans don't want to be informed, they want to feel informed"?

Roger Ailes, former chairman and CEO of Fox News. FactSpread wants voters to be truly informed and motivated.

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