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Drive recorded debt with crafty way fake news appears? (10)

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I believe the answer is:

spuriously

'way fake news appears?' is the definition.
(spurious can mean fake or false)

'drive recorded debt with crafty' is the wordplay.
'drive' becomes 'spur' (both can mean to encourage).
'recorded debt' becomes 'IOU' (an IOU records a debt).
'with' means one lot of letters go next to another.
'crafty' becomes 'sly' (sly can mean crafty or cunning).
'spur'+'iou'+'sly'='SPURIOUSLY'

(Another definition for spuriously that I've seen is " falsely".)

I've seen this clue in The Times.
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