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Stephen Downes

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All credit is due to the Chronicle for exposing a much-quoted (in the supposedly trustworthy traditional media) and fake commentator on student loan data. " After The Chronicle spent more than a week trying to verify Cloud's existence, the company that owns The Student Loan Report confirmed that Cloud was fake." So now we're told that the company is sorry it deceived people. Yeah. They're sorry they were caught. Meanwhile, there is no word on whether traditional media will begin reading and quoting real educators, or stick with their strategy of citing fake shills.

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