Remember not long ago when Facebook said they would be working to combat the spread of “fake news” on the site?
Facebook launches "Trust Indicators" to try to combat fake news:https://t.co/3QVMz21jDO
— Mashable (@mashable) November 16, 2017
How’s that effort coming along? Umm…
How 86-year-old Dan Rather became Facebook’s favorite news anchor https://t.co/SgJVJrA2K8 pic.twitter.com/uurNyRuYBv
— CJR (@CJR) March 8, 2018
Bwa-ha-ha!
Guys I think I found the root of Facebook's fake news problem https://t.co/Z7HueWDYkb
— Stephen Miller (@redsteeze) March 8, 2018
LOL. So the guy who "broke" the biggest fake story of the decade and then blamed the victim of the fake story for the reason of him messing up, is the favorite news anchor of @facebook. And FB claims that it is serious in fighting fake news https://t.co/XwKIqtpNjQ
— Khan хан (@TheKunwarKhan) March 8, 2018
#BeyondSatire https://t.co/WJFZMXi5su
— ryuge (@0ryuge) March 8, 2018
The Columbia Journalism Review does its best to cover for what caused Rather’s departure from CBS News:
"It was an unceremonious end, brought about by a flawed investigation…"
LOL
— ?It's?Almost ⛄️Christmas? (@jtLOL) March 8, 2018
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Also, CJR finds that “Rather has been especially popular with younger audiences on the platform, many of whom have no memory of him as a network anchor.”
That certainly helps explain things.
https://twitter.com/blackand_right/status/971764671526178816
Because #FakeNews is now in fashion in network news. @DanRather was just ahead of his time. https://t.co/7hsY3msoLp
— Ginger Taylor (@GingerTaylor) March 8, 2018
Hahahahaha hahahahaha <breath>
Hahahahaha hahaha hahahahaha
Morons <breath> Hahahahaha hahaha hahahahaha pic.twitter.com/LSszK459V5— Red Chick in a Blue State (@bizzykimmi) March 8, 2018
You can’t make this stuff up.
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