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Waves of fake threats to colleges are putting students on edge and testing dispatchers

Around 50 college campuses across the country have been deluged in recent weeks with hoax calls about armed gunmen and other violence, laying bare the challenges of detecting fake threats quickly to prevent mass panic

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