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Facebook Has Repeatedly Trended Fake News Since Firing Its Human Editors


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Credit: Amy Cavenaile/The Washington Post; iStock

The Intersect ran a little experiment a few weeks ago: During the work day, we’d check in with Facebook each hour, on the hour, and record which topics were trending for us on the platform. The resulting daily pop-up newsletter gave us some interesting insight into the world according to Facebook.

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