We finally realize that the "fake" topic on this site will have to take a rest - because we can no longer keep up with reality. It was fun while it lasted, but the number of headlines with "fake" in the title is just too damn high.
Fake things have taken the world by storm in 2017, and we're all inundated. And that includes facebook.
In an effort to stop fake news, facebook turns your entire timeline into fake news.
Or, in other news, the digitally native, world-changing social platform attempts to make itself more intelligent by programming-by-semantics (i.e., using the word ""fake" to find fake stories, as opposed to some other more complicated algorithm, you know, like all the other very much more complicated algorithms they already use).
Facebook's fake news experiment backfires
Nov 2017, BBC
A Facebook test that promoted comments containing the word fake to the top of news feeds has been criticised by users.
The trial, which Facebook says has now concluded, aimed to prioritise "comments that indicate disbelief".
It meant feeds from the BBC, the Economist, the New York Times and the Guardian all began with a comment mentioning the word fake.
The test, which was visible only to some users, left many frustrated.
Post Script
For those upset about the Orwellian experiment that is social media 2.0, forget not - we are not consumers but participants/test subjects
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