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Exactly my thought when reading the article. Of course Facebook and Google have the power to stop fake news, simply move away from the ads business model and su
by bigbugbag 10y ago
Exactly my thought when reading the article. Of course Facebook and Google have the power to stop fake news, simply move away from the ads business model and suddenly there's no incentive to invest in fake news.
Fake news is an offshoot of the web being an advertising space with a seemingly unending supply of brain hacked human bots.
- Mendenhall 10y ago100 percent agree with this although I doubt many will see the reality of what you said. Facebook and google played a huge part in spreading clickbait and fake news titles and and now all of a sudden they are trying to "stop" it lofnl.
- cat199 10y ago> simply move away from the ads business model and suddenly there's no incentive to invest in fake news Getting your desired message heard and accepted is still a pretty strong motivator - though yes, this does deincentivize the purely 'fake news for profit' camp.
- Shish2k 10y ago> simply move away from the ads business model "simply"?