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It is not that difficult actually.

It requires some human effort that fb and Google are idealogically unwilling to consider. it as simple as requiring accreditation to the national press associations as "real" news orgs have and validating credentials as event venues do for example. Automated solution only approaxg and democratisation of news(I.e bloggers) is an ideological stand not a practical limitations




But how does having 'credentials' mean that they're publishing real news? All that does is give the Government control over who can and can't publish news, and you cannot possibly argue that this is a good thing in any way.

In the US election coverage there have been numerous examples of established 'real' news outlets like CNN, and nice touchy-feely 'acceptable' outlets like Huffington Post publishing stories that have either been outright lies or completely misleading.




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