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		PakG1 on April 16, 2011 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: A death sentence for a young Chinese businesswoman... That raises a whole new problem though, which is distinguishing signal from noise, truth from fiction. That's hard, even in North America when some crazy rumour races through Twitter and the media starts reporting on it accidentally as true. It has happened a couple of times. :(

cglee on April 17, 2011 [–]

You'll need to participate a lot and then you can start to get a sense on who to trust. Or at least who is sensationalistic, who's logical, etc.

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