Florida shooting shows how hard it will be for Facebook to solve its fake-news problem

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The massive quantity and dizzying variety of content about the recent Florida high school shooting on Facebook show how hard it's going to be for the company to fight fake news. If Facebook wants to rid itself of misinformation, it's going to take more than tweaking the software it uses to select it.

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