Fake News is an existential crisis for social media 

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Fake News is an existential crisis for social media.

 

The funny thing about fake news, however, is how mind-numbingly boring it can be.

 

Wicked mind-numbing.

 

Fake News proliferating on FaceBook
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Not so much the fakes themselves, however — they are constructed to be catnip clickbait to stoke the fires of rage of their intended targets, be they gun owners, people of color, racists …

 

Rather , what is really tedious are the often incomplete as well as equally self-serving pronouncements that surround “fake news.”

 

Some very visibly, some not so readily.

 

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And then there is the problem of how social media conduits indifferently facilitate the fakery; in particular, Facebook.

 

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