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Re:Unilever threatens to pull its ads from Facebook and Goog... by ako on Tuesday February 13, 2018 @01:12AM (#16365105)
This article is not about effectiveness of ads on social media. They don't want to be associated with all the fake-news on social media.

I wonder if they show adds on foxnews. Foxnews also seems to be filled with mostly fake news.

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Re:Unilever threatens to pull its ads from Facebook and Goog... by ako on Tuesday February 13, 2018 @03:49AM (#16365675)
Not a democrat, way to right wing for me.

Anyway, fake or not is a difficult discussion, i agree. Personally i think religion is also fake news, no evidence available as far as i'm concerned.

Reason i mentioned fox is that i recently read: https://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/you-need-to-watch-this

It seems a bit shortsighted to just single out social media for fake news, when regular media is as much to blame.

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