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Where Is Your News Really Coming From?

THE MISINFORMATION MONITOR is a monthly roundup of trending stories about the creation, dissemination and monetization of false and misleading news, based on exclusive data from NewsGuard, which applies basic journalistic criteria to provide news consumers warnings about misinformation by rating the reliability of news and information sites

ELECTION UPDATE: AMERICAN POLITICAL groups invest in deceptively-named websites to make their arguments seem more legitimate

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