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PenguinKnight
Apr 6, 2009

Party Plane Jones posted:

Fake news is basically being created by teenagers in foreign countries to spam through Facebook so they can get the revenue from clickthroughs from Google. Getting 60 grand a year for posting poo poo to Facebook goes a long way in Macedonia.


Remember, part of the reason why fake news on Facebook got way the gently caress more prevalent is because Zuckerberg fired the entire team responsible for curating the sidebar trending news.

also that he did that because Peter "literal vampire" Thiel threw a fit.

I'm starting to think that fake news is going to be an issue as long as:
1). Americans become better educated about good sources, what constitutes good news, etc.
2). That there needs to be a stronger outlet for Journalism as public good than NPR, rather than our immensely provit-driven one.

Both of which are pretty much loving impossible, so I hope you all goddamn love every election having some kind of 4chan/reddit created "does the Democrats candidate hide kids to gently caress in the basement of this petshop/hardware store/ bakery? look at the clues in this email!" because this nation is too loving dumb to see that it's bullshit.

Reagan's legacy delenda est

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