Re:Facebook will never take responsibility for fake news
by libertine on Monday March 20, 2017 @07:56AM
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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
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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.
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.