Evidence of Facebook's fake news problem is piling up: The "Trending" section keeps getting hoaxed. Hyperpartisan pages spew fake posts that go viral. And traditional media are picking up those fakes as true.
The bigger problem, however, is that Facebook seems incapable of rooting out hoaxes even after acknowledging they are clearly fake news. On Aug. 29, it apologized for putting Fox News host Megyn Kelly in "Trending" with a link to a bogus story headlined "Fox News Exposes Traitor Megyn Kelly, Kicks Her Out For Backing Hillary."
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