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The Record: Monday, October 2, 2017

Writer James Fallows predicted the Las Vegas shooting — in a way. Five years ago, after the Aurora Colorado theater shooting, he wrote that this would happen again and again and again in America.

If you were looking for information about the shooting on social media, I hope you brought your skepticism. There were false rumors online. Will conspiracy theories fake news and Russian ads lead to new government regulation of Facebook and Google?

And a Microsoft employee is organizing an effort to help the people of Puerto Rico, hurricane victims including her parents. She'll tell you her story this hour.

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