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The Fight Against Fake News

Deputy director of Â鶹¹ÙÍøÊ×Ò³Èë¿Ú World Service, Jamie Angus, on how battle with fake new is going after three months.

In 2016, terms like ‘fake-news’, ‘ post-truths’ and ‘alternate-facts’ became commonplace. It was also the year – and not by coincidence – the Â鶹¹ÙÍøÊ×Ò³Èë¿Ú decided to set up its own Reality Check team. It launched in January of this year and now, three months on, and with International Fact Checking Day having just passed, we thought we would find out how it is all going. The Deputy Director of the Â鶹¹ÙÍøÊ×Ò³Èë¿Ú World service, Jamie Angus joins Rajan Datar to outline exactly what the commitment to fighting fake news means for listeners.

Producer: Leeanne Coyle

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Mon 17 Apr 2017 04:50GMT

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