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The Truth About Lying
"Don't be. They were lying to us. Stealing our pensions. I'm glad they're gone. But now I don't know how I'm going to feed my daughter."
Henry didn't know what to say.
"I just wanted you to know," she continued. "That truth has a cost. And sometimes the people who pay it are the ones who didn't do anything wrong."
She walked away, leaving Henry standing in the cold.
He went back to Jinji's apartment. His team was asleep. He sat at the computer and looked at the data.
50 million users.
100 million lies exposed.
10,000 lives destroyed.
And they were just getting started.
He thought about the woman with the baby. About all the casualties of his revolution.
Then he thought about the millions who'd been lied to by banks, politicians, corporations.
About the choice between comfortable lies and uncomfortable truth.
He opened a new document and started writing his testimony.
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