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Comment by hogFeast | Hacker News Reader

Yes, it is so simple. News should only come from approved sources. Once the veracity has been checked by a Facebook employee, it is then empirically true or false. I don't know why people in the 21st century cannot understand that all statements are true or false, and that we can place authority for determining truth with companies with known, trusted political allegiances.

For example, I have read a lot about healthcare-for-all not being free. The clue is in the name: "free" healthcare. I can't believe that misinformation, probably spread by insurance companies, has been allowed to spread. Facebook should put a stop to this.

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Sarcasm lacking a “/s” sarcasm tag is risky. On deeply divided issues, where both sides demonize the other and is willing to think the worst of anyone at a drop of a hat, unmarked sarcasm is in effect asking to be knocked down.

Your assumption is that I care about some random person on the internet thinking "the worst". The point is to highlight that people on here actually have this attitude, and it isn't sarcasm. How many politicians are saying Facebook should be censoring other people (unsurprisingly: always their opponents)? How many people say social media is the problem? How many people say the "other side's" news is fake news and ignore the fake news they believe in? It isn't possible to have an actual opinion (I have offered them on here, and that gets downvoted too).

> Your assumption is that I care about some random person on the internet thinking "the worst". The point is to highlight that people on here actually have this attitude

If people are thinking the worst of you, you are failing to achieve your stated purpose, namely to highlight that other people hold these opinions.

If you are OK with people believing that you hold these opinions, then you are simply a troll.

Right. These harmful memes are rotting the minds of young voters. We need to have Facebook eliminate them.

Later when people send them via email, we'll need Google, Microsoft, and Apple make sure our email is vetted by their censors.

Then we'll need snail mail censors, and speech censors.

It's like people on HN can't even step back and really think about what they're saying.

Exactly. Glad to hear someone has understood. Eliminate all sources of untruth in society. Truth will prevail.

Yikes.

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