We Can’t Trust Facebook to Regulate Itself

Re:We Can’t Trust Facebook to Regulate Itself by dalbasal on Monday November 20, 2017 @11:25AM (#15741044)

I think you guys are looking past the point.

The definition of “Fake News,” that was being used when it started “trending” and the definition FB are now using in their anti-fakenews efforts is not inaccurate news, bad news, biased news or anything like that. It refers to a simple, common sense meaning of “fake.” Articles pretending to be news: written by a fictional journalists in a fictional publication, citing fictional sources at a fictional address.

Fake news did quickly become an insult that everyone (especially you -know-who) uses to flavour their scorn of regular news. …like the way “fraud,” or “whore” are used as insults.

This is not some impossibly abstract conversation about truth. It’s a simple conversation about spam.

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Re:We Can’t Trust Facebook to Regulate Itself by tambienben on Tuesday November 21, 2017 @12:36AM (#15745869)

So if I'm still being emailed promotions for penile enhancement today, how are we going to regulate those promotions on a government level?

I'm genuinely asking. I don't intend for my question to be a slight against your argument.

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Re:We Can’t Trust Facebook to Regulate Itself by dalbasal on Tuesday November 21, 2017 @12:33PM (#15749656)

I don't know if regulations are necessary or useful here. I think you should buy the penis pills. Let me know if they're good

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Re:We Can’t Trust Facebook to Regulate Itself by tambienben on Thursday November 23, 2017 @01:23AM (#15763208)

My point being that if the issue is spam, as you say, then why is spam-news different?

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