Facebook has been in the news lately over a bunch of fake news items posted on the site. The posts were shared widely until the amount of fake news exceeded the amount of real news. Facebook is working to solve the problem.
What I see as the real problem is the amount of fake news published on real news sites. One of the worst offenders is the New York Times, which regularly distorts the news in favor of liberal causes and worked hard to elect Hillary. Here is an article with links to several NYT stories that turned out to be fake or outright biased.
People can easily check fake news, such as the story that said "the Pope was supporting Donald Trump." It's not so easy to check fake news when it's published in the mainstream media; you have to dig through alternative sources generally available only on the Internet.
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