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Three ways Facebook could reduce fake news without resorting to censorship

  • Written by Jennifer Stromer-Galley, Professor of Information Studies, Syracuse University
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The public gets a lot of its news and information from Facebook. Some of it is fake. That presents a problem for the site’s users, and for the company itself.

Facebook cofounder and chairman Mark Zuckerberg said the company will find ways to address the problem, though he didn’t acknowledge its severity. And...

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