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November 8, 2019Accountability, Accuracy, Media, Social MediaFacebook, Fake news, NiemanLab, Social Mediaethicsadviceline

Facebook fake news: It’s not easy to spot fake news, writes Laura Hazard Owen, who conducted a test on whether posts identified as fake are flagged as false.

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