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Now if you want to find out more about fake news there are plenty of resources out there! If you wanted to keep up to date on the latest fake news, top stories and analysis you could go to https://www.politico.com/tag/fake-news. If you really wanted to dive deep into the fake news you could check out an article by the Atlantic called “The Grim Conclusions of the Largest-Ever Study of Fake News.” In this article they analyze all the major new stories in english on twitter. What they find out is that the false stories and rumors spread way faster than accurate stories and they really dissect how fake news overcame the true news stories. 
https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2018/03/largest-study-ever-fake-news-mit-twitter/555104/. This next article is very interesting because of how fake news affects us during the coronavirus pandemic. It also really explains how misleading information flourishes during a pandemic.

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