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i realize there's a partisan bent to the fake news story, but the indisputable fact of the matter is that there are a lot of sites that straight up fabricate ou

• douche 10y ago
  It's sort of ironic citing BuzzFeed here, as they were long a primary supplier of bullshit news and questionable listicles, before they pivoted into actual journalism.
  • nyolfen 10y ago
    to be fair, i think there's a pretty big difference between 'bullshit' (ie inconsequential) and fabricated news. i remember when i still used facebook, being intensely annoyed every time i saw news that seemed to have vaguely plausible but clearly fake content -- the sites in question were 'satire', a la the onion, though much less clever. in retrospect, now, it seems predestined that at some point they would drop the pretense altogether, though.