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Associated Press: "Fighting Fake News Isn't Just Up to Facebook and Google"
. . . While fake news has been in the real news a lot, many people simply aren't that aware of it.
"A lot of consumers are not savvy about it," says Larry Chiagouris, a marketing professor at Pace University who follows the fake news phenomenon. "And of those that are — and it's a small number— not a lot of them add plug-ins to browsers."
Chiagouris believes we are at the "beginning of the beginning" when it comes to defining just what fake news is and how to combat it. But he and other experts say technological solutions like apps and plug-ins are unlikely to get to the root of the problem.
The real solution, he says, will start in school: "not college, grammar school."
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