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Fakebook filtering out what it deems not in accordance with a certain view of reality? Great. North Korea here we come!
2
The real problem is that there are an awful lot of bone-jarringly stupid people out there.

There's no fix for that.
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Pretty bizarre when a US "newspaper" not openly takes a position that censorship is good, but also but also laments whether there's enough of it.

Not regretting closing my Fascistbook account a few years ago.
4
Great, so I won't see any more posts about how Hillary stole votes in Brooklyn by my hipster dipsh*t friends who live there or that Monsanto created the Zika virus with ridiculous headlines like “Monsanto is Killing Your Children”?
5
So anything from Fox News is scored as likely (p~0.87) fake news?
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@3

"Not regretting closing my Fascistbook account a few years ago."

So....No friends, eh?

(sorry.... couldn't resist)
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@6 ..... and Young Turks and Lee Camp.
10
The only thing more stupid than believing fake news is to censor it.
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Good point Blip. Facebook's decisions are business decisions, not government censorship. But there is a slippery slope between the two.
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@9 Not defending @3 but he/she/it did not invoke the 1st amendment - he/she/it called it censorship. Which, in fact, it is. It's their right, of course, to censor content on their private space and as you point out probably good for their business.

But I refer you to @10.
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Who says they can't do it? I haven't heard that argument. But certainly, and obvious most people, censorship in all formats is a bad thing. Cheering for it is beyond fucked up.
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There are lots of people who, frankly, don't care whether such "news articles" are fake or not; they repost them because these stories reinforce the confirmation bias they already hold, and nothing - no deluge of facts, evidence, or what-have-you - is going to sway them off that. What they BELIEVE is more important to them than what IS, and they're never going to change.
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@15 Flagging complete made up bullshit as complete made up bullshit = 'censorship'?

That kind of sounds a lot like complete made up bullshit.
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Pretty much all mainstream news is completely full of shit, as evidenced by Trump winning when we kept being told Hillary was going to mop the floor with him. Extremely sorry-ass left-leaning bias permeates American journalism, so I'm not at all surprised fascists would cheer something like this.
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Public trust in corporate media is at an historical low. In such context, it is not surprising at all that propagandists find easy targets. Censoring "fake news" without addressing lack of trust in coporate media is not going to solve anything.
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They are just allowing "flagging" of suspicious news stories. Their bar is very high. And they send the story, after it has been flagged multiple times, to be checked by reputable sources. After it has been verified as fake (like, fabricated out of whole cloth, not just biased or inaccurate) they then attach a warning so that anyone forwarding it is made aware that the story is fabricated, and they give links as proof. They do not prevent the person from forwarding it-ie, it is not in any way censored (Jesus!). There are several ways to verify which stories are fake, for example, if they come from a source whose sole purpose is to synthesize fake news, like some Foreign sites that disguise themselves as real news sites (a guy from Slate gave some examples on the PBS Newshour tonight). Finding the source of the story and verifying its authenticity seems like a bare minimum for these sorts of stories that are passed around to millions, have no author listed, and have television network logos plastered all over them (meant to mislead).
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The sad/funny thing is that the skepticism of and rejection of Establishment shenanigans like this is what propelled Trump into the White House. So, after losing legislatures across the country and the presidency to a ham sandwich, what does the Left do? Instead of realizing people are tired of being controlled by their know-whats-good-for-you overlords and scaling back the bullshit, they increase it. Goodnight, American Left. You are terminally ill. The Establishment lacks the self-awareness to terminate itself.
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Look inward, Left. Look inward.

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