Fake News Is Bad News - Hoaxes, Half-truths and the Nature of Today's Journalism

*Edited by Ján Višňovský and Jana Radošinská*

Published in London, United Kingdom

### *Supporting open minds since 2005*

Fake News Is Bad News - Hoaxes, Half-truths and the Nature of Today's Journalism http://dx.doi.org/10.5772/intechopen.87790 Edited by Ján Višňovský and Jana Radošinská

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Philip Effiom Ephraim, Sulaiman A. Osho, Eleonora Shestakova, André Cañizalez, León Hernández, Luisa Torrealba, Kinshuk Pathak, Thomas Froehlich, Zuzana Kvetanová, Anna Kačincová Predmerská, Magdaléna Švecová, Emeka Umejei, Dumebi Otulugbu, Nanche Billa Robert, Elena Danescu, Jon-Chao Hong, Ming-Yueh Hwang, Kai-Hsin Tai, Ján Višňovský, Jana Radošinská

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