It only took 36 hours for these students to solve Facebook's fake news problem

Re:It only took 36 hours for these students to solve Faceboo... by fictionalRealty on Monday November 14, 2016 @10:36PM (#12955409)

Gee, the real problem here is that none of the people reading the "fake news" consider said fictitiousness as a bug.

Indeed, fake aspect of such so-called-news is the feature for them.

Wrap your head around that.

It's news for the world they wished they lived in.

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Re:It only took 36 hours for these students to solve Faceboo... by serge2k on Tuesday November 15, 2016 @12:23AM (#12955822)

Post fact world. It's all about feelings and baseless opinion now.

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Re:It only took 36 hours for these students to solve Faceboo... by gilleain on Tuesday November 15, 2016 @07:24AM (#12957426)

Indeed, Newt Gingrich said during the campaign:

> GINGRICH: The current view is that liberals have a whole set of statistics that theoretically may be right, but it's not where human beings are.

> CAMEROTA: But what you're saying is, but hold on Mr. Speaker because you're saying liberals use these numbers, they use this sort of magic math. These are the FBI statistics. They're not a liberal organization. They're a crime-fighting organization.

> GINGRICH: As a political candidate, I'll go with how people feel and I'll let you go with the theoriticians.

Could not be clearer, I suppose.

http://mediamatters.org/video/2016/07/25/john-oliver-theme-r...

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