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Critics Filet Facebook's 'News Literacy' Efforts
- Medium, Tuesday, April 18, 2017 3:19 PM
Mike Caulfield, director of blended and networked learning at Washington State University Vancouver, is not a fan of Facebook’s latest efforts to combat “fake news.” Among other gripes, Caulfield thinks Facebook’s proposed process takes too long, it deals only with “surface issues,” “it targets fake news but not slanted claims,” and it doesn’t effectively make use of its own powerful network.
