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Ordway, Denise-Marie. "Fact-checking the network: The most interesting digital and social media research of early 2018." Nieman Journalism Lab. Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard, 17 Apr. 2018. Web. 20 Sep. 2023.
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