I have long thought that all of the drama regarding Facebook and so called “fake news” is overblown as well as misguided
I don't dispute that there is a lot of garbage published and shared on that platform, but I bristle at the hysteria and political posturing over how the fate of our republic hinges upon Mark Zuckerberg protecting us from bogus news articles—or at least what some computer algorithm programmed by humans with their own subjective notions about what “bogus” means determines to be bogus.
Not long ago there was a State Farm Insurance commercial where a lady was certain that “they can't put it on the internet if it isn't true.” The humor in that spot is derived, obviously, from the fact that anyone who has spent any time at all using the internet knows that it contains as much nonsense as it does real information.
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