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Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
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Quote: “Honestly, people are definitely dumber”
“Facebook fake-news writer: ‘I think Donald Trump is in the White House because of me’”…

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Thread relocated from IMHO to MPSIMS.

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thanks. fascinating read.

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A report that fake news ‘outperformed’ real news on Facebook before the US election suggests the problem is wildly out of control

But, a team of students programmes 'solved Facebook’s fake news problem in 36 hours, and have made their solution open source:

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Buzzfeed reported on the prevalence of fake news on Facebook a week before the election; but ironically, continued fake news pushed it out of the spotlight.

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That is wonderful!

Actually some good may come out of this election. Maybe best to deal with these issues now (selfishness, misinformation, etc.), then our country won’t get too far out of whack as people will have learned what happens when these things occur.