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I have my concerns too about Facebook, but this is typical sensationalist journalism. If every statement weren’t hyperbolic I’d give it more credibility. Why are so many journalists so bad at their craft now? Read the NY Times, BBC or The Intercept and compare their professionalism to this article. They’ve become an anachronism in a sea of progressive blogger shit like HuffPo.

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They make good points about data/information governance and their propensity to sensor contrarian views... On the other hand, HuffPo does not fail at irony. To wit: "They have destabilized traditional, fact-based journalism."

As someone said about Journos vs Trump. Don't get into trolling wars, cuz you can't win. Stick to facts and stop sensationalizing things. Become journalists and "newsmen" and "newswomen" for a change, again.

> Why are so many journalists so bad at their craft now? Read the NY Times, BBC or The Intercept and compare their professionalism to this article.

You don't really get journalists these days, you get content curators, who aggregate stories from each-other in a giant game of low-paid chinese whispers..

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