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Fraud found by reading between the lines

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Two kinds of deception were a hot topic on social media — the linguistics of fraud and the art of self-delusion.

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Woolston, C. Fraud found by reading between the lines. Nature (2014). https://doi.org/10.1038/nature.2014.15859

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