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How fake news shapes the business cycle

Fake news threatens our electoral process and our social structure. Fabrice Collard tells Tim Phillips that it threatens economic stability too, and that the impact of the of the fake news epidemic can be detected as a rise in uncertainty that transmits to core economic statistics.

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Fake news: Susceptibility, awareness, and solutions

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