Viewer beware: Tips for detecting fake news


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I still remember the day. Even though it was probably a decade ago, it seems just like yesterday.

A reporter was calling the then-police chief of one of the larger cities in our neck of the woods about an item he had seen on social media of some disaster, some heinous crime, something of definite public interest.

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