use of "scourge" is interesting.
Hillary Clinton
@HillaryClinton
Republican legislators want you to throw up your hands and accept this as a normal way to live. The price of "freedom."
But we won’t be free until this scourge of violence ends, and we won't stop pressuring its enablers for change until they help end it.
https://twitter.com/HillaryClinton/status/1532382702522998784
Disclose.tv
@disclosetv
NOW - Obama: "We have to take steps to detoxify our discourse, particularly the scourge of 'disinformation, conspiracy theories, and hate' online."
https://twitter.com/disclosetv/status/1535274255201574913
New Zealand PM Jacinda Ardern addresses Harvard on gun control and democracy
Ardern warns against ‘scourge of online disinformation’, and wins standing ovation for crackdown on weapons
Jacinda Ardern has spoken out against the online “scourge of disinformation” in an address at Harvard University, in which she also won standing ovations for her government’s gun control laws, diversity and decriminalisation of abortion.
The New Zealand prime minister was honoured by the American university , making the annual commencement address to more than a thousand students on Thursday from the same stage as figures such as Winston Churchill, Angela Merkel, Steven Spielberg and Oprah Winfrey.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/may/27/jacinda-ardern-wows-harvard-with-new-zealands-lesson-on-gun-control-and-democracy