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Re:Facebook is 1-2% responsible for the election? by gcatalfamo on Tuesday November 15, 2016 @01:04PM (#12960448) 

  A friend's opinion is many more times effective than a random, fake, news article.
But chances are, in all honesty, that the friend's opinion came from reading one of those fake news articles.
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Re:Facebook is 1-2% responsible for the election? by acbabis on Tuesday November 15, 2016 @01:08PM (#12960502)
I would guess that most image macros containing rhetorical arguments don't come from people who've based their beliefs on bad journalism. They come from people who've already made up their mind and want to reach as many people as possible
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Re:Facebook is 1-2% responsible for the election? by gcatalfamo on Tuesday November 15, 2016 @01:11PM (#12960536)
True, and they could've also come from fake news site that leveraged rage-induced clickbaits to earn massively from ads. (which is what happened during this election)
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