fake news – Confluence Daily

Reading Time: 4 minutes Look, there are a lot of dumb people out there, and there’s a lot of misinformation, some of which is truly more overzealous than malicious in nature.

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December 3, 2019 Confluence

PBS: We Tracked Down A Fake-News Creator In The Suburbs. Here’s What We Learned

Reading Time: 6 minutes A lot of fake and misleading news stories were shared across social media during the election. One that got a lot of traffic had this headline: “FBI Agent Suspected In Hillary Email Leaks Found Dead In Apparent Murder-Suicide.” The story is completely false, but it was shared on Facebook over half a million times.