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UW professors on how to 'detect and defuse' false news stories

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Bill Radke talks to University of Washington Professors Jevin West and Carl Bergstrom. Together they teach a course at UW titled, "Calling bullshit: Data reasoning in a digital world." We first spoke to West when the class kicked off. Now they're back with how they're adjusting to fake news in social media and what they've learned from students, one year in.

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