To check the authenticity of the email, I would first apply the strategies mentioned in\u00a0Michael Caulfield’s guide.\u00a0 First of all I would try and find if any other searches of this kind have been done by one of the numerous reliable sites mentioned in his book. I would then try to ‘ go upstream’ and trace the source of the email. ‘ Highlight’ and ‘ right click’ in chrome seems like a very versatile tool ; I would apply that to certain key phrases in the text .<\/p>\n
The email does seem sketchy. One of the first things that stands out is the tone – dramatic and scandalizing , meant to scare .\u00a0 There are also spelling and grammatical mistakes, seems like its written in a hurry . The language is very ‘ lay ‘ , without the technical terms or specifics that one would expect from the CDC .<\/p>\n
I did know that the Manheim institute was a part of the CDC<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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