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WashingtonPost_0208The Washington Post mentioned Tanushree Mitra, a doctoral student at the Georgia Institute of Technology, who began a project three years ago to see how misinformation and fake news spread through Twitter. At the time, she says, "companies like Facebook and Twitter were not paying much attention."
Read the rest of the article here: https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/fighting-fake-news-isnt-just-up-to-facebook-and-google/2017/02/06/4bbc4d7a-ecd3-11e6-a100-fdaaf400369a_story.html?utm_term=.48404e11e3dd
