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Annenberg Study Finds Wide Variability in Stations’ Fact Checking Practices and Understanding of FCC Regulations

To better understand how local broadcast stations deal with third party ads and fact checking of political content in news and on line, 260 local broadcast television station managers and executives were surveyed from March 26 through June 8, 2012. The 260 included those responsible for stations under corporate ownership and locally owned stations. Because