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Live at ViVE: Finding Accurate Health News Amid Media Misinformation—with Sony Salzman

In traditional journalism, reporters work to present information in an unbiased way.

And if you ask Sony Salzman, it’s not difficult to maintain those same standards in creating content for social media.

What is difficult is competing with a hyperbolic, fearmongering post designed to go viral.

So, how do we know who to trust when it comes to health and medical news? Whose responsibility is it to vet the information we’re consuming?

Sony is an Emmy award-winning journalist covering science and medicine and coordinating producer of ABC’s Medical Unit, where she directs health, science and…

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