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    University offers course to help sniff out and refute 'bullshit'

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    Steve Dent
    Steve Dent
    02.21.2017

    Not only is fake news everywhere, but its purveyors call genuine news fake, making it doubly hard for the average person to know what's real and what's Inception. For example, President Donald Trump recently made up a terrorist attack in Sweden, and when the nation's former PM called bullshit, he said the refutation itself was "fake news." Luckily, there's now a course at the University of Washington, "Calling Bullshit in the Age of Big Data" that helps you find bad information and show others why it's bad.