ProPublica identified 95 Facebook pages that regularly post made-up headlines designed to draw engagement — and, often, stoke political divisions.
The pages, most of which are managed by people overseas, have a total of more than 7.7M followers.
Read more: Facebook Boosts Viral Content as It Drops Fact-Checking — ProPublica
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All I see anymore on Facebook is rage bait sites. I spend most of my time there of late hiding these pages.
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They clearly are rage baiting people, they are trying and succeeding at making people hate people. They don’t even want people to try, they are trying to train people to attack on sight, before you even open your mouth.
I notice when ppl literally argue with me regarding something another Black person says, like they are continuing the conversation. It is definitely harming people’s ability to think.
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