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Re:One More Sign World Is Shrinking – eBay Is for Suckers by shard972 on Wednesday December 14, 2016 @07:56PM (#13181341)
Probably in a similar way they tackled fake news, with all the finesse of a bull in a china shop.
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Re:One More Sign World Is Shrinking – eBay Is for Suckers by amenghra on Wednesday December 14, 2016 @08:36PM (#13181582)
http://www.discovery.com/tv-shows/mythbusters/videos/bull-in...
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Re:One More Sign World Is Shrinking – eBay Is for Suckers by zeahfj on Wednesday December 14, 2016 @08:04PM (#13181392)
The fake news was done badly on purpose so people would beg them for manual curation ;)
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Re:One More Sign World Is Shrinking – eBay Is for Suckers by zeahfj on Wednesday December 14, 2016 @09:48PM (#13181963)
Interestingly this comment was voted up a bunch and then voted down a bunch.

'fake news' can be easily detected, not by the content but by those who share it. I've built similar stuff before but obviously can't talk about specifics without outing myself.

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