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Reuters / Philip Pullella / Dec 7, 2016
“Francis told the Belgian Catholic weekly ‘Tertio’ that spreading disinformation was ‘probably the greatest damage that the media can do’ and using communications for this rather than to educate the public amounted to a sin. Using precise psychological terms, he said scandal-mongering media risked falling prey to coprophilia, or arousal from excrement, and consumers of these media risked coprophagia, or eating excrement.” LO
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