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Let The Zuck Do It

“We take our responsibilities on false news very seriously. False news hurts everyone because it makes our community uninformed, it hurts our community, it hurts countries. We know that people want to see accurate news on Facebook, and that’s what we want them to see.

“[W]e definitely don’t want to be the arbiter of the truth.”

—Sheryl Sandberg, Facebook COO, “Facebook doesn’t want to be the ‘arbiter of the truth,’ top exec Sheryl Sandberg says, amid fake news criticism,” CNBC, April 24, 2017

 
• Editorial Comment: Well, somebody’s got to arbit the truth, right, Zuck?

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