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by rokosbasilisk 3466 days ago
Can you prove facebook is really responding to consumer demand ?

The whole fake news narrative popped up over night to explain Trump winning at impossible odds.

Id say people were fine with filter bubbles truth be damned as long as the outgroup got smeared.

Its also disingenious to say its not hard to see how the fake tag could be abused. Oil companies have spent fortunes trying to get climate change labeled as fake, and look how successful it was.