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Media peddling fake news online to attract readers

THE tradition of collecting, processing, verifying and then sharing information with the public seems to have been abandoned by journalism professionals, and instead, “journalists” and otherwise respected news houses – in a frenzied panic of losing their watchdog role to social media – are now mimicking the information sharing methods of Twitter influencers.

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