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Well it's a start but what about not showing fake news in the first place? Or blocking ads from sites that post fake news?


They can't stop showing fake news because they can't detect it algorithmically and have no interest in building a massive human organization to fact-check manually.

All US platforms are also scared of aggressively moderating their platforms because it can be used to argue that they should lose Section 230 or DMCA protections.


Because I don't trust a faceless megacorporation with adjudicating the truth or falsehood of all speech




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