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TED-Ed

How to choose your news - Damon Brown

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With the advent of the Internet and social media, news is distributed at an incredible rate by an unprecedented number of different media outlets. How do we choose which news to consume? Damon Brown gives the inside scoop on how the opinions and facts (and sometimes non-facts) make their way into the news and how the smart reader can tell them apart.

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Meet The Creators

Educator
Damon Brown
Producer
Aaron Augenblick
Director
Alisa Harris-Norico
Compositor
Kristofer Wollinger
Script Editor
Alex Gendler
Narrator
Addison Anderson

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