LogFAQs > #892635017

Amuseum posted...

The original intent was to flag controversial conservative views. So obviously when conservatives see that "fake news " icon, they flock to Those articles, as easy identifiers for the type of news they prefer.

This, tbh. The measure was almost exclusively partisan in nature and plays into a larger trend of traditionally left-leaning (or straight-up liberal) media outlets trying to delegitimize emerging, conservative media. Pretty much everybody understands that -- liberal or conservative -- so the conservatives weren't terribly likely to take the flag seriously. The general issue is that this model causes actual falsehoods to be ignored by over-policing on the conservative side while controversial claims on the other side aren't even checked.

More so, the idea that people would trust Facebook parroting the "fact-checkers" they already distrust was laughable.
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