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Re:Want to Stop Fake News? Pay for the Real Thing by tossaccount123 on Friday February 01, 2019 @09:31AM (#19054328)

There's also the fact that the MSM has made complete asses of themselves over the last few years.

Has "Fake News" ever knocked trillions of dollars off the stock market because they ran an unverified story that implied the president would be impeached?

https://nypost.com/2017/12/02/abc-news-corrects-flynn-bombsh...

At some point there needs to more accountability for these organizations than "Oh, sorry about that"

I'm not sure why the media and journalists still get held up to some nostalgic ideal of brave upholders of truth. The majority of news organizations are owned by billionaires pushing their own agenda or giant corporations that only care about profit. Truth is secondary at this point.

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Re:Want to Stop Fake News? Pay for the Real Thing by jshowa3 on Friday February 01, 2019 @09:35AM (#19054355)

Facebook lost a lot of stock value over the Cambridge Analytics scandal and the spread of fake info after it was reported on. Of course, this assumes this was the actual cause of its declining stock value, since it recently increased.

So yes, it has been assumed to have happened.

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