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How citizen investigators can collaborate on crowdsourced fact-checking

  • Written by Ricky J. Sethi, Assistant Professor of Computer Science, Fitchburg State University
imagePeople can work together to help tell truth from falsehood.waraut60/Shutterstock.com

It can be hard to know what is true online. Propaganda and misinformation have a much longer history than the internet, of course. But the rapid proliferation of “fake news” on social media, and its tendency to extend into mainstream news coverage, can...

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