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Facebook Pages Spreading Fake News Won't Be Able To Buy Ads (techcrunch.com)
An anonymous reader quotes a report from TechCrunch: Facebook says it's taking another step against Pages that share fabricated news stories. The company has already been working with outside fact-checkers like Snopes and the AP to flag inaccurate news stories. (These aren't supposed to be stories that are disputed for reasons of opinion or partisanship, but rather outright hoaxes and lies.) It also says that when a story is marked as disputed, the link can can no longer be promoted through Facebook ads. The next step, which the company is announcing today, involves stopping Pages that regularly share these stories from buying any Facebook ads at all, regardless of whether or not the ad includes a disputed link. In this case, Leathern said blocking ad-buying is meant to change the economic incentives. Facebook is concerned that "there are Pages posting this information that are using Facebook Ads to build audiences" to spread false news. By changing the ad policy, Facebook makes it harder for companies to attract that audience.
You make a good point. God forgetting to put "Thou shalt not fuck children" explains the Catholic Church pretty well.
Only crack the nuts that crack. You don't put the ones that don't crack in the sack.
When you have 24 hours of fake news from CNN followed by a 2 minute "we were wrong but only because the president is so terrible it was easy for us to make that mistake", that is far more damaging than a "far-right" site that has no credibility pushing fake news.
The day that CNN publishes their retractions for the same amount of time that they published the fake news without using the apology as another chance to throw digs at the president will be the day their reputation goes a little up.
Hell, the way they phrase their banner shows their hate "Trump holds economic news conference while Houston floods."
CNN plays all day at my work. Just when I think I'm losing support of Trump, I'll end up in the cafeteria and see those banners and remember that there is an enormous propaganda compain trying to make me feel that way. I really didn't think the press could treat someone worse than Bush Jr (who I am sick of and wish would disappear - him coming out against Trump doesn't make his haters like him and it makes his supporters regret him)