How to catch the next George Santos

George Santos won election to Congress in New York last November — but he probably never would have been able to win a school board seat in Maryland. 

That’s because students at the Philip Merrill College of Journalism at the University of Maryland would have likely outed him as a fraud before voters ever went to the polls. 

Ninety-six students at Maryland spent the fall immersed in a new program called the Local News Network, which was designed to teach them the basic elements of local news reporting — such as vetting political candidates. 

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