How to Spot Fake Facebook News


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Much has recently been made about the phenomenon of "fake news." And while it has now infiltrated political news, Mormons have been dealing with fake news for much longer. While Facebook offers new ways for fake news to proliferate like never before, fake news has circulated through email chains, home teaching visits, and sacrament meeting talks for many years. Here are Mormon Hub's four ways to check if news, particularly LDS-related news, is trustworthy. Look at the Context When you see a piece of news online, you're going to want to look at the context of that article to get a good idea for how reliable it is. 1. Do a simple Google search with keywords from the story. If the story is only found on one site, that's one sign it isn't legitimate. Now, being the first news outlet to break a story is a sign of a good news operation, so that by itself isn't enough to say the story isn't legitimate, but it's a start. 2. Does the website have an...

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