Fearing yet another witch hunt, Reddit bans ‘Pizzagate’; Mark Zuckerberg outlines Facebook’s ideas to battle fake news; This is how Facebook’s fake-news writers make money; Facebook fake-news writer: ‘I think Donald Trump is in the White House because of me’; Facebook ‘raptured’ a bunch of users, telling many that they were dead;
 
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Fearing yet another witch hunt, Reddit bans ‘Pizzagate’
"Pizzagate” isn't true, but its led to some very real harassment of the people caught up in the online conspiracy theory.
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Mark Zuckerberg outlines Facebook’s ideas to battle fake news
"Some of these ideas will work well, and some will not,” Zuckerberg said on Friday.
 
This is how Facebook’s fake-news writers make money
"I make like $10,000 a month from AdSense,” one fake-news writer said this week.
 
Facebook fake-news writer: ‘I think Donald Trump is in the White House because of me’
The man responsible for many of this year's viral political hoaxes thinks he may have swung the election.
 
Facebook ‘raptured’ a bunch of users, telling many that they were dead
Did Facebook display a memorial message asking your friends to remember you, or were you left behind?
 
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