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Extremely concerning that this is in a textbook and is actually being taught to children.
 
This has been all over facebook the past few days. The problem is that the Feinstein quote is fake. It came from a defunct satirical website called the "Palookaville Post", and the "reporter" who wrote the story was named "Jimmy Olsentwins." Even a conservative blogger admitted that the quote was fake, yet right-wing websites like "Georgia Gun Owners" are going nuts over it.
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Rubes eat it up.
 
sailordeac said:
it's obviously satirical; even a garden variety PC sociologist should be able to understand that; then of course there are exceptions
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LOL. You really think the idiots in your party who fall for any lie they're told think that is satirical?
 
WFFaithful said:
Nah

http://money.cnn.com/2017/10/06/media/facebook-nfl-fake-news/index.html
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Which raises an interesting question: Is Facebook's reliance on an algorithm enough to combat misinformation that spreads on the site? Facebook has moved away from human editors and chosen to empower its algorithm. In the summer of 2016, it fired a team of people who were responsible for curating its Trending topics list.
A team of human editors could have helped curtail such fake news on the social network. Real people can monitor Facebook for popular fake news stories and promptly remove them. If such a team were employed, it's hard to imagine this particular story would have flown under the radar, considering the attention the photo received last week. Instead, Facebook's reliance on an algorithm left it blind, in this case, to the fact that an obviously fake story was continuing to find a haven on its platform days after it had been easily disproved.
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Facebook fired those human curators in response to Republican claims that Facebook was biased.

Facebook caved and that opened the floodgates for fake news to reach broader audiences.
 
Reminds me of when Rand Paul tried to pull that out in a speech at Howard University.
 
PhDeac said:
LOL. You really think the idiots in your party who fall for any lie they're told think that is satirical?
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The Georgia Gun Owners page on facebook has well over 1500 comments from outraged gun owners ridiculing Feinstein over a fake quote...which the great majority is convinced is real. A few posters have pointed out that the quote is fake, but they're either ignored or shouted down by true believers who insist it's a real quote, no matter what the evidence says. Even the handful who admit it's fake still post thoughts such as "well, maybe this quote isn't real, but it's what she believes!" to "Feinstein is a Marxist, and all Marxists want to take away yer guns!". They certainly don't seem to think it's a fake quote. For what it's worth, it's also a rather amusing read - some of those posters have reached Dale Gribble levels of paranoia and rage.
 
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Real Americans love fake quotes.
 
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