How Facebook and Google AMP Help Camouflage Fake News
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Funny, I consider Business Insider to be one of the most prolific purveyors of clickbait. When I read news on SFGate.com, I always hover over a headline to see if the link contains "businessinsider" so that I can skip it. Sadly, it seems that a growing chunk of SFGate is just repackaged BI garbage.
Can you imagine any other business having the temerity to call themselves real and their competition fake? Would you believe McDonalds and Burger King if they got together and decided to call all other restaurants "fake food"?
Thank God Buzzfeed and organizations with as much rock solid integrity such as CNN are leading the crusade against "fake news".
The problem of fake news is not subjective. It is a problem of active and obvious deception.
I have interacted with many people who have shared blatantly false articles, based on clearly invented "facts." articles. These articles were always shared by many thousands of people.
What are you basing your comment on? The way you want the world to be?
That's exactly how many of the Fake News articles operate.
Sad.
There are a number of sites that mix opinion and reporting more than, say, the New York Times. That's a separate category than sites and stories made of whole cloth.