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Facebook Shouldn’t Bother Policing Fake News—It Should Go Local Instead

Facebook Shouldn’t Bother Policing Fake News—It Should Go Local Instead

Facebook Shouldn’t Bother Policing Fake News—It Should Go Local Instead

Business, Spoken · SpokenLayer

November 25, 20164m 0s

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Since the election, Facebook has faced growing pressure to police hoaxes and misleading content. And with good reason: around 44 percent of US adults get at least some of their news through Facebook, and fake news often spreads more quickly through social media than real news.

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