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Re:Snowden: Stop Relying on Facebook for Your News by ttflee on Wednesday November 16, 2016 @07:33PM (#12973064)
For people in China where Facebook is not accessible, however, the same things happen in WeChat, especially in its Moments timeline which more or less resembles the one from Facebook. Fake `news', rumors, (unreliable) hints for health/food and click-baits are just more than popular.

WeChat did provide a process to flag inappropriate articles, but people around the age of my parents just won't stop forwarding.

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Re:Snowden: Stop Relying on Facebook for Your News by kebinappies on Wednesday November 16, 2016 @11:07PM (#12974151)
The flag can only stop a small amount of them. The real problem is that people unaware that they are reading fake news and share them to more and more people. This is doing a lot of harm.
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Re:Snowden: Stop Relying on Facebook for Your News by TheSpiceIsLife on Wednesday November 16, 2016 @08:37PM (#12973429)
I keep thinking China is right to block Facebook, but you're right they have their own implementation of the problem anyway.
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