How To Spot Fake News From A Mile Away

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Thanks to the Twitters and the Facebooks of the world, these days we pretty much just get our "news" from the clickbait headlines we see while scrolling through poorly-made but still hilarious memes. Which sucks, because it's pretty much ruining society. So here's how to avoid becoming an uninformed angry internet denizen in the future.

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