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Re:Facebook will never take responsibility for fake news by amelius on Monday March 20, 2017 @07:43AM (#13913279)
I'm all for freedom of speech, but is the "information snack" format of Facebook not simply the wrong format for spreading political views?

Imho, at the least, Facebook should merge commenting from larger groups of users on a single political post, in such a way that a balanced view of pro and con arguments can be read. (This means that if one of my friends shares a post, I don't see just my friends' comments).

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Re:Facebook will never take responsibility for fake news by TeMPOraL on Monday March 20, 2017 @08:01AM (#13913358)
That's what you have in comments sections of news articles (and in comments to posts of fanpages). It's almost always unreadable mess composed of the worst humanity has to offer.
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Re:Facebook will never take responsibility for fake news by makomk on Monday March 20, 2017 @08:21AM (#13913463)
I'm not convinced this will help. This is effectively what happens on Twitter, and the fact that the replies are full of links to a Snopes article debunking the claim doesn't seem to stop people from retweeting it even on the left.
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