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The Guardian / Emily Bell
/ Dec 16“For a dwindling number of journalists to be paid to dispel the social media ‘dust cloud of nonsense,’ as Barack Obama once called it, their publications have to rely on the services of companies such as Facebook and Taboola, who make money from having disgracefully low or non-existent editorial standards themselves. Careful lessons on how to parse disinformation are themselves sitting on a dung heap of dubious advertising and problematic content which is — unlike the journalism — highly profitable for third-party companies.” —
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Fake news
