Opinion: How to spot fake news
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Joe Hayden
Joe Hayden, a professor of journalism at the University of Memphis, is writing a history of fake news in America.
Kids don’t read as much as their parents did, and when you don’t read much you don’t know much. That makes you more susceptible to fakery, lies, and conspiracies.
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