Posted on 05/09/2019 10:01:46 AM PDT by metmom
MENLO PARK, CA—As Facebook went after fringe conspiracy theorists earlier this week, there was an accidental casualty on the social network: CNN.
According to Facebook reps, the automated system that scans the network for wild conspiracy theories like Holocaust denial, weather manipulation, flat earthers, and Russian collusion flagged CNN as one of the most prominent promoters of fake news on the network.
"Our algorithm looked for pages and people that were constantly peddling outlandish conspiracy theories, and it seems to have banned CNN for some reason," a Facebook representative said in a statement. "It appears that since CNN is still insisting that President Trump colluded with Russia, despite a mountain of facts and evidence showing that he did not, our computer systems determined that our network would have much less fake news without CNN."
Facebook apologized for the error and reinstated CNN while banning 59 more conservative pages to make restitution for the mistake.
LOLOL!
If only, eh?
They got me! Too funny
Love these guys/gals!
They are right on the cutting edge of what is the current Rat political thrust and labeling it as satire.
Wonder how many Freepers have had mini strokes/TIAs, because they didn’t realize what they were reading was prime time satire.
“Accidental”?
Accidently accurate, I’d say.
I wish.
Accidentally?
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