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Flag fake news

When large, profit-driven advertisements that look like news stories are printed in the Herald about a “cure for cancer” or similar “breakthrough,” they include a disclaimer that, indeed, it is an ad and not an article.

Why can’t a similar disclosure be required of intentionally deceptive, but authentic-looking stories that circulate on the web, and that fooled one man into firing an assault rifle in a Washington, D.C., restaurant filled with children and families?

Robert C. Meyer, Miami

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Letters to the Editor

Vote for civility and ethics for better local governments

By Jim Cason, former mayor, Coral Gables, Merrett R. Stierheim, former Miami-Dade County manager

February 20, 2019 01:36 PM

There are many important municipal elections scheduled this year throughout Miami-Dade County. The impact of those elections on local residents spans across many issues, like personal safety and security, taxation, and neighborhood recareation programs.

Because these issues often affect the quality of residential life and the delivery of municipal public services, residents should take more than passing interest in who their candidates are and what they stand for. It is most important for all of us to become informed and vote.