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Owen, Laura Hazard. "Individually, people aren’t great at judging news sources. En masse, they’re almost the same as professional fact-checkers." Nieman Journalism Lab. Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard, 1 Feb. 2019. Web. 18 Apr. 2024.
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Owen, L. (2019, Feb. 1). Individually, people aren’t great at judging news sources. En masse, they’re almost the same as professional fact-checkers. Nieman Journalism Lab. Retrieved April 18, 2024, from https://www.niemanlab.org/2019/02/individually-people-arent-great-at-judging-news-sources-en-masse-theyre-almost-the-same-as-professional-fact-checkers/
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Owen, Laura Hazard. "Individually, people aren’t great at judging news sources. En masse, they’re almost the same as professional fact-checkers." Nieman Journalism Lab. Last modified February 1, 2019. Accessed April 18, 2024. https://www.niemanlab.org/2019/02/individually-people-arent-great-at-judging-news-sources-en-masse-theyre-almost-the-same-as-professional-fact-checkers/.
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