Facebook experimented with a satire tag http://www.theregister.co.uk/2014/08/18/facebook_experiments_with_satire_tag/ http://www.theregister.co.uk/2014/08/18/fa

Facebook experimented with a satire tag http://www.theregister.co.uk/2014/08/18/facebook_experiments_with_satire_tag/ http://www.theregister.co.uk/2014/08/18/facebook_experiments... If an article is posted from a known satire site then it's flagged as 'fake/satire', then if that's reblogged by a 'legit' site it'll pick up on the similarity in the title and flag it again. I had this functionality on my social site a few years ago (before FB) and the tech side of it works beautifully but the people side of it, not so much. I implemented it after seeing people spending hours arguing over posts from The Onion and similar sites, but it doesn't work because you get accused of censorship. Who are you to say it's fake? Why are you censoring me? That's what they want you to believe! etc etc People are their own worst enemy, and there's no technological fix for that, people are jumping on the bandwagon and trying to 'fix' it now ( http://nymag.com/selectall/2016/11/heres-a-browser-extension-that-will-flag-fake-news-sites.html?mid=fb-share-selectall http://nymag.com/selectall/2016/11/heres-a-browser-extension... ) but they're ignorant that all this has been tried and failed before.