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Ciampaglia and Filippo Menczer, Giovanni Luca. "These are the three types of bias that explain all the fake news, pseudoscience, and other junk in your News Feed." Nieman Journalism Lab. Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard, 20 Jun. 2018. Web. 22 Mar. 2025.
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Ciampaglia and Filippo Menczer, G. (2018, Jun. 20). These are the three types of bias that explain all the fake news, pseudoscience, and other junk in your News Feed. Nieman Journalism Lab. Retrieved March 22, 2025, from https://www.niemanlab.org/2018/06/these-are-the-three-types-of-bias-that-explain-all-the-fake-news-pseudoscience-and-other-junk-in-your-news-feed/
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Ciampaglia and Filippo Menczer, Giovanni Luca. "These are the three types of bias that explain all the fake news, pseudoscience, and other junk in your News Feed." Nieman Journalism Lab. Last modified June 20, 2018. Accessed March 22, 2025. https://www.niemanlab.org/2018/06/these-are-the-three-types-of-bias-that-explain-all-the-fake-news-pseudoscience-and-other-junk-in-your-news-feed/.
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