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Owen, Laura Hazard. "Maybe it’s also time to start calling fact-checking something else. (Anybody got any ideas?)." Nieman Journalism Lab. Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard, 1 Dec. 2017. Web. 17 Nov. 2024.
APA
Owen, L. (2017, Dec. 1). Maybe it’s also time to start calling fact-checking something else. (Anybody got any ideas?). Nieman Journalism Lab. Retrieved November 17, 2024, from https://www.niemanlab.org/2017/12/maybe-its-also-time-to-start-calling-fact-checking-something-else-anybody-got-any-ideas/
Chicago
Owen, Laura Hazard. "Maybe it’s also time to start calling fact-checking something else. (Anybody got any ideas?)." Nieman Journalism Lab. Last modified December 1, 2017. Accessed November 17, 2024. https://www.niemanlab.org/2017/12/maybe-its-also-time-to-start-calling-fact-checking-something-else-anybody-got-any-ideas/.
Wikipedia
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