Facebook is not going to fix fake news. No one is going to fix fake news because it runs on human nature + virality + network effects. Fake news will continue to hang around — like it always has in various forms — and the phenomenon won't lose its internet boost.
I think my words were a little clumsy, but yes, that's the gist of it. Facebook telling their customers (advertisers) that they had a demographic picked out that was known to be particularly susceptible to certain varieties of content.
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I think there's a really meaningful legal regulatory debate to be had about this kind of stuff. For example, we regulate where billboards can and cannot be placed, and in some cases content restrictions on certain placements (stuff near elementary schools for example).
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I'm fearful of pretty much any outcome =/
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