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Re:Facebook will never take responsibility for fake news by DanCarvajal on Monday March 20, 2017 @09:37AM (#13914050)
Why wont the News Media take responsibility for their content being so poor that it's increasingly hard to tell between what's "real" and what's "fake"?
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Re:Facebook will never take responsibility for fake news by jrnichols on Monday March 20, 2017 @11:08AM (#13914822)
They don't really care anymore as long as that sweet sweet ad revenue keeps rolling in.

That's one thing I've noticed drives a lot of the fake news sites - they're loaded with ads. Clearly that's their goal. If only we could get Google to cut off ad revenue to websites that are spreading made-up news.

Good recent example? This: http://archive.is/R5Z1J

Fake news about Trump spread like wildfire. Even worse, the fake news sites were set up by a media company to advertise their new film. I think that's absolutely reprehensible behavior on their part.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2017/02/1...

And it's all about the ad revenue.

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Re:Facebook will never take responsibility for fake news by Neliquat on Monday March 20, 2017 @10:45AM (#13914607)
Bingo. The batshit fundie newsletters are better sourced than the average nyt article these days.
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