Lies, damn lies and viral content

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Tow Center / Craig Silverman / Feb 11

News websites dedicate far more time and resources to propagating questionable and often false claims than they do working to verify and/or debunk viral content and online rumors. The debunking efforts that do exist at news organizations are scattershot and are not rooted in best practices identified in previous research.

—JE

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