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“Claire Wardle, executive director of First Draft, which is hosted in Harvard University’s Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy, said in an email that this was the first time she’s seen fake tweets posing as journalists’ work. However, over the past couple of years, she’s seen tweets chastising journalists who reach out to people affected by breaking news events. That nugget of reality is what makes these fake tweets effective, she said.” —
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disinformation,
Fake news,
mass shooting,
misinformation,
social media,
Twitter
