Some of these people that we … bait is probably the right word — are often — let’s call them the deplorables, right? They’re not the safest crowd. Some of them I would consider domestic terrorists. So they’re just not people that I want to be knocking on my door.
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What can be done about fake news?
Some of this has to fall on the readers themselves. The consumers of content have to be better at identifying this stuff. We have a whole nation of media-illiterate people. Really, there needs to be something done.
What you see here is an entrepreneur making millions of dollars a year off the ignorance of people who shouldn’t have an Internet connection. People who see something sensationalist that merely proves their conspiracies and hate and they eat it up. I don’t fault these fake news creators and I don’t think Google or Facebook should do anything to filter them out. There should be a list of people who share this BS and comment on it and we put them all in a silo filled with people like them and they can pat each other on the back all day. I think Yahoo! Answers is already like this. We should just sent them all there where the most common password is password.
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