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It’s the share-before-reading era. You’ve done it, I’ve done it—grabbed a headline, shared it superfast, and moved on. Who has time to read anymore?

This is one of the ways fake news—on top of news that’s, like, two years old—can proliferate. We’re flaring up and paying less attention. The results have resonated through our political landscape and social networks, so the News Literacy Project (NPL) wants to change this nasty habit by encouraging people to slow down and take a deeper dive.

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