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#35 Fake News and the US Election

#35 Fake News and the US Election

Update: 2020-11-02
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Fake news dominated the contentious 2016 US election. Will it happen again?

We talk to Lyric Jain, founder of fact-checking app Logically, and Dr Marcus Funk, associate professor of mass communication at Sam Houston State University, about how misinformation has mutated in the age of COVID.

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#35 Fake News and the US Election

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