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Veteran newsman Tom Brokaw says “fake news” is here to stay.

“Fake news is a terrible thing . . . we have to be on guard against it. People cannot just take what is on the screen and believe it,” he told us at a screening of Steven Spielberg’s Netflix series, “Five Came Back,” about filmmakers who served in World War II.

“It is a sad day in journalism, but it is the advancement in technology,” Brokaw said. “It is going to affect us for a long time . . . Once it is online, it is there forever.”