Techdirt: Filmmaker Gives Newspapers Bogus Stories To See If They Fact Check

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by Daba
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2 weeks, 6 days ago
4 weeks ago

 

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Rose M. Welch alerts us to the news of a filmmaker who wanted to see how much fact checking newspaper do, so he started calling them with totally made up "tips" about celebrities, and discovered that many of them were quickly printed with little to no...

http://techdirt.com/articles/20091021/0109166616.shtml

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