Could Facebook and other tech companies do more to fight disinformation on their platforms? Of course, if they cared to. How do we know this? Because they already do it for other odious content. Ask yourself this: when was the last time you saw pornography, suicide, beheadings, or other acts of terrorism on Facebook? The answer is likely never. That’s because Facebook employs a human team that scrubs for this type of content, so it never makes its way onto our news feeds. It’s got to be the worst job at Facebook, but they care enough to pay attention to it, because it would likely hurt their
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