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You Can’t Fact Check Propaganda: A common media practice misunderstands the nature of its quarry. (hedgehogreview.com)

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

It infuriates me to see in USA Today they've had a section "Fact Check" paid for by Facebook to repost false information tweets and posts, amplified by ambivalent headlines, and then lamely say, "but not really" somewhere until middle of the article. This is not fighting fake news.