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by gruberjl 1400 days ago
Well it's a start but what about not showing fake news in the first place? Or blocking ads from sites that post fake news?
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They can't stop showing fake news because they can't detect it algorithmically and have no interest in building a massive human organization to fact-check manually.

All US platforms are also scared of aggressively moderating their platforms because it can be used to argue that they should lose Section 230 or DMCA protections.

Because I don't trust a faceless megacorporation with adjudicating the truth or falsehood of all speech