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“We were brainstorming and thinking about how to reach people who like and share fake news online,” said Maarten Schenk, who runs the Lead Stories debunking site in Belgium. “Fake news sites don’t have any trouble reaching them, because your crazy uncle on Facebook always comes up with new fake news sites that you’ve never heard of. So we thought, ‘What if we try to mimic their tactics and see if we can beat the enemy with their own weapons?’” —
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Belgium,
fact-checking,
Fake news,
Lead Stories,
Maarten Schenk
