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Mar 2020
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Real Answers to Fake News

MISSION
About this episode

Fake news: It’s everywhere. But Google’s Jigsaw team is using data to tackle the problem head-on.

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This program is produced by Mission.org and brought to you by Splunk, the Data-to-Everything Platform. Splunk helps organizations worldwide turn data into doing. 

With solutions for IT, security, IoT and business operations, Splunk empowers people to make faster, better decisions and take action to get things done. Learn more at splunk.com.

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