With all due respect, you're wrong. Unlike porn nannyware the goal is not 100% blocking of "offensive" content.
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Replying to @RichFelker @stribika
The goal is to prevent the massive spread/influence/profitability of fake news, which is very close to the problem of spam.
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Spam filtering does work, very well, and fake news can be defeated with similar techniques.
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You're not "determining truth". This is not on article granularity. There are whole spam sites devoted to fake news.
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The people running them are not trying to get anyone elected. They're using idiots to get ad views/clicks.
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BTW it's not just political fake news. The antivax movement is driven by this crap too (see NaturalNews, etc.). Same profit motive
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Some of the sites may be run directly by quacks, but many are just ads and run stories to attract same ppl who'll buy the crap.
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