Facebook says Pages that regularly share false news won’t be able to buy ads

Re:Facebook says Pages that regularly share false news won’t... by smhost on Monday August 28, 2017 @12:59PM (#15118118)

But the fear of censorship is that truth will be obscured. If free speech is being abused to do what we're afraid censorship will do, doesn't that create a contradiction in your logic?

And to be clear, what we mean by "fake news" are stories that are demonstrably false with incorrect information that's never corrected even when it's revealed to be false. We're _not_ talking about what Trump calls "fake news," by which he means any narrative that doesn't paint him in a positive light.

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Re:Facebook says Pages that regularly share false news won’t... by wooter on Monday August 28, 2017 @01:44PM (#15118537)

> If free speech is being abused to do what we're afraid censorship will do, doesn't that create a contradiction in your logic?

Irrelevant. Limiting speech doesn't solve that contradiction, it only guarantees the worse outcome. More speech solves your proposed "contradiction" just fine.

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Re:Facebook says Pages that regularly share false news won’t... by smhost on Monday August 28, 2017 @02:11PM (#15118770)

That seems like a distinction without a difference. Would you be happier with a system that pushed disproportionately more "true" speech at the vulnerable (ignorant) demographic?

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