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0 pointsBurningFrog10y ago0 comments

Even assuming maximum cynicism, they should care about losing trust (and therefore future business) when it's shown they've spread fake news.

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ggchappell10y ago

That would be the case if they did in fact lose money based on this problem.

I don't know how common/significant such losses are. But it seems clear that lots of news organizations are betting heavily that such losses are less than the cost of ensuring that they publish only reliable news.

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