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Re:Facebook will never take responsibility for fake news by JamesMcMinn on Monday March 20, 2017 @07:27AM (#13913207)
The problem with having to provide a source is that the majority of "fake news" type stories, even the ones that are true, come from anonymous sources "close to X" or "within Y". It also means every Onion story will be capped.

Something at a publisher level, where the publisher themselves is given a fake news rating, rather than individual stories, might work, but even that is full of difficult to solve issues.

Re:Facebook will never take responsibility for fake news by libertine on Monday March 20, 2017 @07:56AM (#13913340)
Well, the Onion is considered a news or entertainment?

Publishers always had reputation (good or bad) based on their work, which maybe could be displayed with a rating - the problem is when even those with good rep are wrong...

Re:Facebook will never take responsibility for fake news by JamesMcMinn on Monday March 20, 2017 @08:07AM (#13913386)
The Onion is listed as a Media/news company on Facebook. For those that know what the Onion is, it's entertainment masquerading as news, but for those who don't know, it certainly looks a lot like news.