Dear Facebook, please fix the plague of fake news before you ruin foreign elections too

 It’s true, Facebook isn’t single-handedly responsible for the outcome of the U.S. presidential election. But the company played an important part in the rise of Donald Trump. Many people now think Facebook has to find a way to flag fake news appropriately before the next election in 2020. But it’s a much more urgent issue. Facebook has to weed out fake news before the… Read More

source https://techcrunch.com/2016/11/14/how-to-watch-the-world-burn-and-do-nothing/?ncid=rss