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26/10/2020 GMT

How to spot fake news

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A former CIA analyst shares her tips on separating what’s true from what’s false

A former CIA analyst with ten years’ experience of sifting through disinformation shares her tips on separating what’s true from what’s false

A former CIA analyst shares her tips on separating what’s true from what’s false. There’s been a lot of nervousness about the role of social media in the run up to next week’s US presidential elections with concerns over voting interference and disinformation campaigns from foreign actors. Cindy Otis was an analyst at the CIA for ten years and her job was to filter through information and weed out fake and misleading news. She has now written a book aimed at young adults called True or False: A CIA Analyst's Guide to Spotting Fake News and tells us how fake news works.

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