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by lipstone 2135 days ago
Surely the tech-minded folks of HN understand that this doesn't actually occur under any reasonable definition of "active." This article is a clear example of how the media twists reality due to their lack of understanding and/or maliciousness.
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>> Researchers found that when they followed public Facebook pages containing Holocaust denial content, Facebook recommended further similar content.

I can understand that being precise is crucial when making statements like this but instead of getting hung up on that detail, the tech-minded folks of HN would also understand the main argument about the perinicious effect of such feedback of "similar content" reinforcing the false beliefs and conspiracies.

Indeed, often technically correct is not the best kind of correct.