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Facebook has repeatedly trended fake news since firing its human editors
Facebook has repeatedly trended fake news since firing its human editors
The Intersect ran a little experiment a few weeks ago: During the work day, we'd check in with Facebook each hour, on the hour, and record which topics were trending for us on the platform. The resulting daily pop-up newsletter gave us some interesting insight into the world according to Facebook.
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Nobody was surprised at this outcome, of course, because we all called it the moment removing human editors was announced.
So it's not news that having not-news as news is not news?