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Be careful who you get your news from; not everyone reports responsibly

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Be careful who you get your news from; not everyone reports responsibly
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Not everyone on social media is reporting news in a ethical way. (Photo by Anne-Marie Caruso/New Jersey Monitor)Lately, my Facebook news feed has been inundated by posts from people I don’t follow. They have blue checkmarks next to their names and they’re reporting information they treat as facts, even though it isn’t true.
Many of them are local “influencers” — Pew Research defines news influencers as people who regularly post about current events on social media and have at least 100,000 follo

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