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TYT: Facebook Wants To Help You Know What News Is Real
"In an ideal world, Facebook’s News Feed would consists of great stories shared by people with unique points of view with thoughtful discussion taking place in the comments. In practice, it’s pretty much just a collection of your uncle’s conspiracy theories about how the government is run by lizard people. Facebook finally wants to change that.
Starting today, users will be able to help Facebook spot hoaxes and hopefully stop the spread of bad information. Using the Report Post feature, users will now have the option to mark a story as false news. When a number of people have reported the story as inaccurate and full of dirty lies, Facebook will add an annotation to warn users that many others have reported it as fake.
Rather than rely simply on user-reported accounts, which will no doubt consist of people trying to tag news stories as inaccurate when in actuality they just don’t agree with it, Facebook will also contribute to the cause by tracking how often stories are deleted."
#0 sez: " Climate deniers, fracking shills & cop groupies/ ammosexuals are going to love this."
