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> This article itself felt like fake news

Totally impossible, I say.

Just how hard of a problem is it for an algorithm to determine real news from lies?

Not that hard.

... hackathon ... just 36-hours ... classifies every post ... artificial intelligence ... algorithm ... reasonable certainty ... such WOW ;)

And... how exactly does their AI tell apart two election articles differing only in reported results? What about determining whether alleged Linus Torvalds' statement on penguin equality is real or not? Or whether some random hackathon project actually delivers, for that matter?

Why did they write an article like that? What about people who don't know that this project (most likely) reacts only to cranky language or some finite number of facts it has been trained on and could be easily gamed? They'll go and share this crap to "prove" that Facebook is lazy if they feel like doing so, that's what. So thank you, BI, for your contribution to the quality of Internet discourse.