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“He’s endlessly creative and legit funky. There’s always an element of ‘Watch this…’ that makes it so exciting when you begin a song together — like you’re playing a trick on the audience.

"I think my eyes played a trick on me," she said.

“It’s playing a trick on you,” said Dr. Rid, a professor at Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies.

Must have been my nerves playing a trick on me.

Cyberwar has been playing a trick on us for decades — and especially in the past weeks.