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Re:Here’s Facebook’s plan to crack down on fake news by raverbashing on Thursday December 15, 2016 @06:06PM (#13189535)
Good

But even yesterday I reported a story and corresponding page as "hate speech" (It was not exactly that, but it was a heavily misrepresentation of facts with the intention of hate speech/bigotry) for fb to return my report as "does not violate standards" OKAY THEN

But yeah, allowing things to be flagged as fake news will make things better

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Re:Here’s Facebook’s plan to crack down on fake news by skrowl on Thursday December 15, 2016 @06:57PM (#13189892)
Censorship is never a good thing. The 4 groups they picked are all hyper partisan.
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Re:Here’s Facebook’s plan to crack down on fake news by spiderfarmer on Thursday December 15, 2016 @07:03PM (#13189927)
They're ideological. Not partisan. The reason they seem to be leaning towards one party is due to the lack of choices in the two party system of the US.
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Re:Here’s Facebook’s plan to crack down on fake news by raverbashing on Friday December 16, 2016 @03:23AM (#13191861)
I don't feel sorry for the censorship of fake and/or misrepresenting stories

But then again, the problem with censorship is the abuse that often happens

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