Re:Facebook will never take responsibility for fake news
by CM30 on Monday March 20, 2017 @06:26AM
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You mean the priorities and incentives that advertisers have put in place? Because while Facebook and other social media sites are often associated with it, I'd say things like Google search and ad networks have encouraged it just as much.
Re:Facebook will never take responsibility for fake news
by candiodari on Monday March 20, 2017 @06:29AM
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> the priorities and incentives that Facebook has put in place: making outrageous headlines and stories out of thin air
Because we don't see outrageous headlines anywhere else ! That's why !
However, the term being loosely defined should not make us lose sight of the fact that there is an specific kind of "fake news" that is 100% a consequence of the priorities and incentives that Facebook has put in place: making outrageous headlines and stories out of thin air, for no other reason than making money from advertising.