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01 · When

Adoption clusters into a single decade.

Disinformation policy is a recent phenomenon. The yearly count stays near zero through the 2000s, then steepens sharply after 2015 — most of the corpus was written in the last ten years.

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How to read it

Each bar is one year's count of enacted policies. Color the bars by primary instrument or response to see whether the field's regulatory mix shifted as the volume grew, or simply scaled up unchanged.