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Re:Clip shows misinformation still has a home on Facebook by abootstrapper on Saturday May 25, 2019 @10:46AM (#20009338)
This is not biased news. It is absolutely fake being passed as true. Not Donald Trump’s definition of fake (news you don’t like), but actually not factual. The two are not equivalent. Pizza gate is not real, the earth is not flat, vaccines do not cause autism. These and other false claims are being passed off as facts by a few bad actors and propagated through fake accounts to sow discontent. It’s working, and it has to stop. Facebook, Twitter, and other tech corporations have to put an end to this for the good of humanity, or humanity needs to put an end to these corporations.
Re:Clip shows misinformation still has a home on Facebook by wbronitsky on Saturday May 25, 2019 @10:54AM (#20009385)
It is always deeply ironic to me that unpopular sentiments about censorship are routinely censored on HN (the parent post is getting downvoted, which is censorship here)
Re:Clip shows misinformation still has a home on Facebook by ThrowawayR2 on Saturday May 25, 2019 @11:41AM (#20009605)
It might be more accurately thought of as teaching the pro-censorship side a lesson about the consequences of their own principles. Surely those who advocate the deplatforming of bad ideas, of all people, have no right to protest when the public decides their views are bad ideas and deplatforms them?
Re:Clip shows misinformation still has a home on Facebook by abootstrapper on Saturday May 25, 2019 @12:12PM (#20009772)
Or whomever has the most fake accounts wins.