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By Jason Lim Mad cow, Obama, and Tablo share something very important in common. What could a neurodegenerative disease, the current President of the United States, and a Korean American rap star possibly have in common? After all, one of them isn’t even human. But they do indeed share something profound in common that’s unique to the times that we live in today. They are all victims of falsehoods going viral and overwhelming whatever defenses that actual ``facts” struggle to put up. Two-and-a-half years ago, just as President Lee Myung-bak was taking reins of the South Korean government, he was ambushed by a flurry of gripes on resuming imports of U.S. beef that quickly blossomed into the biggest street protest seen in the country since South Korea became a democracy. The protests centered on the Lee government’s resumption of U.S. beef imports that would supposedly put the Korean public at great risk of contracting the mad cow disease. Claims that won wide credibility included a theory that the homogenous Korean race shared a gene that made it especially susceptible