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Most Students Don’t Know When News Is Fake, Stanford Study Finds

Source: The Wall Street Journal

A 2016 study conducted by researchers at Stanford University found that the majority of middle and high school students surveyed were unable to evaluate the credibility of online news sources. Read to learn more about the study’s findings.

This entry was posted in Approaching Adulthood and tagged Culture & Society, People on August 1, 2017 by Chandler Gifford.

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