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Harley Worthit
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Most people don’t really want news, they want to confirm that what they already believe is true. Before social media such a “news” source didn’t exist, so people were forced to confront actual facts. Now, you can tell yourself that there is real “news” that backs up what you already think without having to confront

Wow 44% is a staggering amount of people that use Facebook as a source of news. Granted there are some legitimate news sources on there but there is SO, SO, SOOOOO much bullshit! Let’s face that fact too that a large percentage of the group didn’t even bother to check if the news was even credible in the first place.

Facebook, once again, is trying to half-ass functions it was never meant to serve.

Zuck, you can either allow Facebook to be a completely user-driven experience, or you can be a news organization. But if you plump for the latter then it means deciding on an editorial direction for what you allow for, and ‘anything goes’ doesn’t fucking count, at least not if you want to have anything in the way of