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Great American Fake Off

Great American Fake Off

Episode 360 Published 9 years, 4 months ago
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Some 82% of middle-schoolers couldn’t distinguish between an ad labeled “sponsored content” and a real news story on a website, according to a Stanford University study of 7,804 students from middle school through college. The study, set for release Tuesday, is the biggest so far on how teens evaluate information they find online.

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