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Infographics violently oversimplify highly complex global conflicts

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Nuance does not get massive internet shares. Digital media companies heavily condense decades of incredibly tense geopolitical history into a wildly simplistic ten-slide pastel graphic, ensuring massive viral reach by providing the absolute most digestible and entirely inaccurate summary possible.

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