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NewJeffCT

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27. Facebook tried to combat it a few years ago

Reply to L. Coyote (Reply #14)

Thu May 25, 2017, 12:29 PM

May 2017

they had an editorial group that they put together to combat "fake news" - however, the Right Wingers howled in pain that this editorial group was going to "unfairly" target Republicans/conservatives because I think one member of the group was known as a liberal. So, Facebook disbanded the editorial group and let the bullshit fly. This was pre-Trump, but Republicans already knew that a lot of the "fake news" out there was targeted towards them.

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Facebook tried to combat it a few years ago NewJeffCT May 2017 #27

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