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How the Big Lie Ended Up in a Sixth-Grade Classroom in Florida

‘SEEMS PRETTY OUT OF PLACE’

A study sheet used the media’s coverage of the Big Lie as an example of bias—in a state whose governor has avoided taking a clear position on whether the 2020 election was stolen.

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Photo Illustration by Thomas Levinson/The Daily Beast/Getty/School District of Manatee County

Today’s lesson is how the Big Lie made it onto a world history study sheet handed out by a substitute teacher in the sixth grade at the R.

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