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    Commentary: Facebook just gave up the fight against fake news

    by Brian A. Boyle, Los Angeles Times Oct 03, 2019 2 minutes

    Up is down. Left is right. Cats are dogs. President Trump is a very stable genius. Trump is Lucifer incarnate.

    These are all demonstrably false statements. But now, thanks to a new Facebook policy that exempts political advertisements from fact-checking, they may as well be true. At least, as long as they appear in a campaign ad.

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