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Owen, Laura Hazard. "All those annoying April Fool’s pranks you’ll see Monday might help researchers better detect fake news." Nieman Journalism Lab. Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard, 29 Mar. 2019. Web. 18 Mar. 2025.
APA
Owen, L. (2019, Mar. 29). All those annoying April Fool’s pranks you’ll see Monday might help researchers better detect fake news. Nieman Journalism Lab. Retrieved March 18, 2025, from https://www.niemanlab.org/2019/03/all-those-annoying-april-fools-pranks-youll-see-monday-might-help-researchers-better-detect-fake-news/
Chicago
Owen, Laura Hazard. "All those annoying April Fool’s pranks you’ll see Monday might help researchers better detect fake news." Nieman Journalism Lab. Last modified March 29, 2019. Accessed March 18, 2025. https://www.niemanlab.org/2019/03/all-those-annoying-april-fools-pranks-youll-see-monday-might-help-researchers-better-detect-fake-news/.
Wikipedia
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| date = 29 March 2019
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