Facebook’s fake news problem won’t fix itself – Poynter

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Facebook’s fake news problem won’t fix itself – Poynter

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via Poynter: http://www.poynter.org/2016/facebooks-fake-news-problem-wont-fix-itself/434236/

Evidence of Facebook’s fake news problem is piling up: The “Trending” section keeps getting hoaxed. Hyperpartisan pages spew fake posts that go viral. And traditional media are picking up those fakes as true.