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'Own nothing, be happy' - how a headline morphed into a far-right weapon
The weaponising of an innocuous WEF headline is a cautionary tale of how misinformation derails free speech
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Adrian Monck
Own nothing, be happy. You might have heard the phrase. It started life as a screenshot, culled from the Internet by an anonymous anti-Semitic account on the image board 4chan.
"Own nothing, be happy - The Jew World Order 2030", said the post, which went viral among extremists.
