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Girl maintaining missive from school gives fake news (10)

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I believe the answer is:

misreports

'gives fake news' is the definition.
(to misreport is to give false information)

'girl maintaining missive from school' is the wordplay.
'girl' becomes 'miss' (term of address for an unmarried woman).
'maintaining' is an insertion indicator (inserted letters are held or maintained).
'missive from school' becomes 'report' (as in a school report).
'miss' enclosing 'report' is 'MISREPORTS'.

I've seen this clue in The Times.
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