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#30: What journalism can do to combat disinformation.

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There is a huge responsibility for big tech, in particular, for online users themselves, to try and combat disinformation. What can journalists do to curb the spread of disinformation, especially on social media? These are the issues our #FreeSpeak host Gwen Lister deliberates on with Editor of the Namibian Sun, Toivo Njabela.

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