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A comment on Snowden: Stop Relying on Facebook for Your News. Parent comment

Re:Snowden: Stop Relying on Facebook for Your News by peterkshultz on Thursday November 17, 2016 @12:02AM (#12974487)
I've thought the same thing, but the people interested in using such an extension would get their news from places other than Facebook.

Self-selection bias greatly reduces the efficacy of such an extension.

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Re:Snowden: Stop Relying on Facebook for Your News by renaudg on Thursday November 17, 2016 @01:15AM (#12974835)
They could get their news from Facebook too, they would just more likely subscribe to more reputable pages and have less hoax-sharing friends.
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Re:Snowden: Stop Relying on Facebook for Your News by mmariani on Thursday November 17, 2016 @08:18AM (#12977150)
Then they would claim that reputable sources too are biased against their beliefs and they'll come up with their reputable sources. Paranoia is some people nurse and profit from—unfortunately.
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