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June 20, 2018 09:34 pm GMT

Facebook shuts down actual news under the cover of 'political ads' policy

Having missed the boat completely on fake news, Facebook appears to now be dropping the hammer on the real stuff. 

The nonprofit investigative journalism outlet Reveal published a major story this week regarding immigrant children allegedly being forcibly injected with drugs at a government-contractor run detention center. As outlets do these days, it attempted to share the story on Facebook with its readers. And, possibly because Facebook's opaque Newsfeed algorithm means no one has any idea if their followers will even see the story, the organization also tried to boost the story's reach with an ad buy.  Read more...

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