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

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: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday November 16 2016, @03:38PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday November 16 2016, @03:38PM (#427548)

    so now if propaganda doesn't come from big government/NWO controlled sources it's fake news? the "real news" is the fake news and everyone knows it. now they have whores like slavebook acting as gatekeepers and eradicators of fake news. Every slave in the book should be raising hell about their interference but being mindless zombies they are probably cheering their masters on.

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  • (Score: 3, Insightful) by cubancigar11 on Wednesday November 16 2016, @04:20PM

    by cubancigar11 (330) on Wednesday November 16 2016, @04:20PM (#427579) Homepage Journal

    The reason for this drama is that life for a lot of people living in american cities is very good. They feel empowered - the media talks about them, movies show them, and products are marketed to them, they get to meet different people who think they are great! And all they have to do is espouse liberal ideologies without spending an iota on critical thinking. In the free time they can get on Twitter and complain about how their life is just as bad if not worse than people not living in cities. And Twitter knows that these city-dwelling twenty-something SJWs are the ones who are gullible enough to buy random shit if it makes them feel different. So Twitter bans the people who make the actual cash-cows feel unwanted.

    Facebook chose a more technical solution - it grouped everyone into a circle-jerk and then contained that group. So if you post liberal shit you only see liberal shit from your liberal friends and your other friends who post alt-right shit remain invisible unless you do enough 'likings' to make Facebook think they are relevant to you. And vice-versa. This is a problem for establishment because it not only makes it impossible to gauge the general public opinion, it empowers everyone equally by telling them they are not alone. And that is a problem for establishment! It is in the business of selling power, and if everyone feels empowered, then people can start to have independent thought! The horror!!!

    Personally I think information should be like a river where people should be free to put all their garbage because I don't think information effects anyone or anything except humans. Freedom of speech, etc. But what do I know??