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He did not say that. What he did say was true.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al_Gore_and_information_techno...



He said he created it - not sure what hair you’re trying to split here.


“During my service in the United States Congress, I took the initiative in creating the Internet.”

That is not a claim that he “created the Internet”. He, of anybody, knows that sponsoring legislation to enable the creation of a thing is not synonymous with personally creating the thing.

If he got anything wrong it was to be clumsy with words in a live interview. Who among us has not occasionally been clumsy with words in live conversation? That doesn’t license people to keep insisting we said a thing we didn’t actually say.




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