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Re:News Feed FYI: Addressing Hoaxes and Fake News by morgante on Thursday December 15, 2016 @02:01PM (#13187150)
Issues are often only addressed when they become important enough to have major consequences. That doesn't make reaction inherently political.

The amount of conservative gaslighting out there today is really troubling. Any source which doesn't agree with their biased version of reality is "liberal."

It's amazing to me how effectively the alt-right has taken over Hacker News to the point where fact-checking is considered harmful.

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Re:News Feed FYI: Addressing Hoaxes and Fake News by dang on Friday December 16, 2016 @07:46AM (#13192857)
That last bit isn't an accurate description. What's going on is that the societies from which HN users come are deeply divided, and those divisions are inevitably showing up here, as they would in any large enough sample.
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