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In-Text Citation: (Bakar et al., 2022)
To Cite this Article: Bakar, W. H. R. bin W. A., Misaridin, N. A. F. binti, Ismail, R. N. H. binti R., & Rozali, W. N. A. W. binti. (2022). The Quality Criteria of Pahang Fake News Model during Covid-19 Pandemic: According to Uses and Gratification Theory. International Journal of Academic Research in Business and Social Sciences, 12(12), 1572– 1577.
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