Yet another reason to hate Facebook. As if I needed one.
Doc Searls @dsearls
13 Nov 2016
Fake ad sources on Facebook blogs.harvard.edu/doc/2016/1…
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hating Facebook is as practical as hating email, and there is proportional fake news in FB to the amount of email spam in gmail
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But is there a spam filter for Facebook? Should there be one?
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it's built into Facebook. If you don't like fake news on FB, you label it just like spam in gmail. softwareengineeringdaily.com…
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Replying to @software_daily
True. It does seem to work exceptionally badly, unfortunately

Nov 13, 2016 · 6:27 PM UTC

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Replying to @stilkov
In my experience it works wonderfully, and like any supervised learning it requires continued input from the user.
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You seem to believe the platform isn't at fault, only its users are. I disagree: it incentivizes lies and fake news for financial gain
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