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Facebook’s design is quietly training us all to be conspiracy theorists

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Facebook’s design is quietly training us all to be conspiracy theorists

Recently, tech blog BGR graciously linked to an older post of mine showing that the scale at which fake news stories trend on Facebook can dwarf traditional news in terms of shares. The BGR story ended with this paragraph:

Updated July 21, 20229 min read