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Facebook folds fake news flag: We're not disputing that

Saturday 30th December 2017 21:53 GMT bombastic bob

Re: Detecting Fake News is hard

"Fake News has been around at least since the early 1900s"

It's like, how long have supermarket tabloids been around? "UFO's ate my puppy" etc.

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