ENTR 2P91 Lecture 4: ITIS Net Cast

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If comments call out article for being fake, it probably is. A lot of fake misleading stories are shared on social media. Headlines are exaggerated to get the readers attention, misleading headlines. A lot of quotes in the article, info from multiple sources. Look at the bottom of the article to see all the sources that have been used. Established news organizations use well known domain names, so if its something you do(cid:374)"t re(cid:272)og(cid:374)ize or a longer url its probably fake news. The first thing you can do to identify fake news is check the comment section of the article. A lot of misleading stories are shared on social media. The headlines are usually exaggerated to get the readers attention. Most of the time, articles like this are fake. You can verify in the comments section by reading comments made by other readers. The second thing you can do is look at the amount of quotes in the article.

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