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Facebook’s European media chief: Fake news is a 'game of whack-a-mole'

Facebook’s European media chief: Fake news is a 'game of whack-a-mole'

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European countries... still behind the U.S. in terms of sheer volume of fake-news ... But posts designed to be entirely false and deliberately trick people is growing. In the U.K.... “It’s rare that a complete falsehood goes viral ... stories written by hyper-partisan sites, that have a kernel of truth and then are expanded into lies lathered with political spin or taken entirely out of context as a kind of crowd-pleaser for readers that tend to go viral in Britain... part of the tabloid culture...
categorized ... fake news into three buckets: total falsehoods, falsehoods with nuggets of truth, or the kind spread by partisan communities that take images or pieces of information wildly out of context... U.K. style ... is the more dangerous form, given its sophistication.

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