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Facebook's Fake News Crisis Deepens

posted by janrinok on Wednesday November 16 2016, @12:17AM   Printer-friendly
from the truth-and-nothing-but-the-truth dept.

Phoenix666 writes:

Despite the best efforts of Mark Zuckerberg to downplay Facebook's role in the election of Donald Trump, the scrutiny of how fake news is spread on the platform has intensified.

Buzzfeed News is reporting that "more than dozens" of Facebook employees have created an unofficial task force dedicated to addressing the issue.

Buzzfeed quoted one member of that task force, who did not want to be named over fears for their job.

"[Mark Zuckerberg] knows, and those of us at the company know, that fake news ran wild on our platform during the entire campaign season," the source said.

The election shook out the way it did because there were ways around the narrative the media was pushing?

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  • (Score: 4, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday November 16 2016, @05:08AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday November 16 2016, @05:08AM (#427372)

    > if the Spirit Cooking and "pizza" rumors on Reddit are even 1% true we are dealing with Elemental Evil on a level that needs purging with fire.

    I forget, are you the christian freak or the libertarian freak?
    I get you and jdavidb mixed up all the time. I guess its the j. And the crazy. It all blends together.

    But I'm gonna guess you are the christian freak. Right?
    Because only a total fundie would believe that "spirit cooking" bullshit. [snopes.com]
    Like all conspiracy theorists, you are the biggest sheeple of them all, easily persuaded because you are already untethered from reality.

    > Go read Most Damaging WikiLeak

    Sorry, doesn't work without javascript. Not even enough to show the home page.
    Can't really take them seriously if they can't get the basics down.

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