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soupsoup:

Although it looks and feels like a new kind of journalism, what Carvin and Mann are doing really isn’t that different from what reporters have always done — but the scale of what they are doing now has changed. Instead of one or two sources, now there are hundreds or even thousands, most of whom are unknown or even anonymous. One of the biggest challenges for this kind of reporting is the simple verification of facts and assessments of who is credible and who is not.

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