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Will Facebook Decide Which News Is Fake? - C C - Sep 1, 2017
https://www.acsh.org/news/2017/08/30/will-facebook-decide-which-news-fake-11767
EXCERPT: Like North Korea, everybody agrees that fake news is a big problem. But also like the Hermit Kingdom, nobody really knows what to do about it. Facebook, a site from which a substantial number of people acquire their daily news, has decided that pages that post fake stories will be banned from advertising. That's a perfectly fine decision, but it raises a bigger and more profound question: Who decides which news is fake? Mark Zuckerberg?...
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RE: Will Facebook Decide Which News Is Fake? - confused2 - Sep 1, 2017
It was said (by ?) that history is written by the victors. I suspect that (now) truth is written by the highest bidder. If facebook/Zuckerberg have shareholders (?) they probably have a legal obligation to let the highest bidder write the truth.