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Re:Free speech cannot be sacrificed to strike fake news by freehunter on Friday April 06, 2018 @02:18PM (#16775817)
Right. Everyone knew the National Enquirer was junk. But big cable news companies are big cable news companies. You trust them. Your local news anchors, you've watched them your whole life. You trust them. You trust your mom and your preacher and your coworkers, so when they tell you something, your guard is lowered.

All the time Facebook shows me "[My mother] likes [News Outlet]" and then shows me stories from that news outlet. That is a recommendation from my mom, or at least Facebook would have you believe so.

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Re:Free speech cannot be sacrificed to strike fake news by rdiddly on Friday April 06, 2018 @03:53PM (#16776801)
It's kind of like, trust-hijacking, isn't it. The news outlet uses your mom's auth token to get access to your brain's API endpoint!
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Re:Free speech cannot be sacrificed to strike fake news by freehunter on Monday April 09, 2018 @09:18PM (#16798292)
I like that. Trust-hijacking. It sums up what "influencers" have been used for since the dawn of social media.
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