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by brilliantcode 3494 days ago
say you are reading an article, what is the best way to gauge the authenticity of the article and how to make the user actually give a shit about it's validity?

It surprises me people read fake news on FB knowing it's false but upvote or share it because of crowd effect-lot of shares & likes must mean it's legitimate.

This is a major loss of confidence in Facebook, at first dow right denying the existence of fake news, now announcing half measures to kill their own user engagement. It boggles my mind such company is somehow more valuable than incumbent tech giants with more cash than facebook will ever earn in it's lifetime.