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

Re:Facebook to Let Users Rank Credibility of News by DrScump on Monday January 22, 2018 @03:19AM (#16202769) 

   you can work out its popularity just by the number of comments
Popularity, yes. Accuracy, no.
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Re:Facebook to Let Users Rank Credibility of News by jamiethompson on Monday January 22, 2018 @04:25AM (#16203065)
That's the kicker though. For the vast majority of people popularity == accuracy.
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