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    Hoaxy visualizes how fake news spreads across social media

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    Timothy J. Seppala
    Timothy J. Seppala
    12.21.2016

    We're at the point where the proliferation of fake news online has had extreme offline consequences. While Google has poured funds into battling misinformation and Facebook has asked its users to rate headlines for truthfulness, Indiana University is going about things a different way. Hoaxy, a project from IU's Center for Complex Networks and System Research, is a search engine that tracks the spread of fake news stories, visually.