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Don't strain yourself, Zuck, only democracy at stake... Facebook makes half-hearted effort to flag election lies by President Trump

codejunky Silver badge

So?

"Facebook has finally taken action... in the most grudging, useless way imaginable."

Good. Doing this much is too much but they were forced into it. Who gets to decide what is fact or fiction? And since Trumps comments are often assumed to be fiction why do they need flagging?

To see why this is an issue just look to pretty much any information put out on the web even if its limited to just politicians (who are not known for lying /sarc) and pretty much everything has to then be tagged and labelled lie. Except it wont. Because whoever is in charge will want to abuse the situation to label others liers but not themselves.

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