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A comment on Facebook to Let Users Rank Credibility of News.

Re:Facebook to Let Users Rank Credibility of News by alexgandy on Sunday January 21, 2018 @10:35PM (#16201699)
Bad or good, this is an admission of failure. Facebook just flat out said "screw it, you all decide what's real...because we sure as shit can't."
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Re:Facebook to Let Users Rank Credibility of News by ikeyany on Monday January 22, 2018 @10:03AM (#16204804)
They sure as shit can, but they sure as shit don't want to. They could have tackled this 10 years ago but instead they optimized for likes, clicks, traffic, and revenue.
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Re:Facebook to Let Users Rank Credibility of News by dagw on Monday January 22, 2018 @09:27AM (#16204533)
...because we sure as shit can't."

...because we sure as shit don't want to get into that mess.

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