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Re:Facebook blocks links to B.S. Detector, fake news warning... by Spivak on Friday December 02, 2016 @04:57PM (#13092689)
What's your metric for communication platform full of user generated content 'working well'?

I'm not trying to be snarky, I don't see how this can possibly be a failing of Facebook unless you really believe that an algorithm that ranks posts can actually fix the human problems that underlie this issue.

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Re:Facebook blocks links to B.S. Detector, fake news warning... by phailhaus on Tuesday December 13, 2016 @12:42PM (#13168725)
When I said that it wasn't "working well", I was referring to the epidemic of fake news. It turns out that, for better or worse, a significant amount of the population is using Facebook for its news source. We can say that they're silly and shouldn't be using Facebook for news, but they are and they're not going to stop until a systemic solution is put into place.
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