Circular reporting
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circular-reporting-206-19144795
title:
Circular reporting
text:
Circular reporting, or false confirmation, is a situation in source criticism where a piece of information appears to come from multiple independent sources, but in reality comes from only one source. In many cases, the problem happens mistakenly through sloppy reporting or intelligence-gathering. However, the situation can also be intentionally contrived by the source or reporter as a way of reinforcing the widespread belief in its information. Circular reporting occurs in a variety of fields,
brand slug:
wiki
category slug:
encyclopedia
description:
Multiple sources for single-source data
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Circular_reporting
date created:
2009-05-06T10:15:00Z
date modified:
2024-09-11T07:10:28Z
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image:
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fields total:
13
integrity:
16