VIDEO: How to decode your social media feeds this election with the BBC's Marianna Spring

This video from Marianna Spring at the BBC offers several important tips for verifying the source and accuracy of information in those many text updates we receive on our phones regarding this year's elections.

British Broadcasting Corporation
As polling day approaches in the U.K. and worldwide, political posts are popping up across social media. Some accurate, others false and misleading. How can you decode what’s being pushed to your feeds this general election?

The BBC’s Disinformation and Social Media correspondent Marianna Spring has some top tips and talks through the tactics she’s spotted on the social media feeds of “Undercover Voter” accounts she created.

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