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By Hank Silverberg   How to avoid ā€œFake Newsā€ I was standing at the checkout counter at the supermarket the other day and I noticed something was missing. People Magazine  was there, as well as some fashion magazines with the latest diet trend. But the old tabloids with the huge headlines like ā€œ60 Year Old Woman Gives Birth to Two Headed Baby,ā€ or ā€œElvis Spotted At Gas Station in Toledo,ā€ were missing. That kind of fake news, the obvious kind, moved to the Internet a while ago.  And why not? They have plenty of company, though it may not be so obvious. REAL ā€œfake newsā€ has always been around. People actually bought News of the World (now defunct)   or  The National Enquirer for a good la ugh or for some entertainment. No one really took them seriously (at least I hope not), even though on occasion the Enquirer would actually print something that was true.  There is also a long standing tradition of political satire in the United States. The O...

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