Jim Rutenberg, a columnist for The New York Times, argues that social giants like Facebook have a civic responsibility to weed out fake news. “With a mainstream news media that works
hard to separate fact from fiction under economic and political threat, Facebook -- which has contributed to that economic threat by gobbling up so much of the online advertising market -- is going to
have a special responsibility to do its part,” he writes.
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