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How to handle ‘fake news’

By Mark Grabowski
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Did you hear that Donald Trump claims the Earth is flat? That an African billionaire is offering $1 million to African-Americans to leave the United States? Or that Russians discovered a vaccine to cure homosexuality?

All of the above are just recent popular fake news stories — a growing epidemic online, which Facebook and Google recently vowed to help stymie.

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