Facebook itself is trying to filter the fake news

News maybe, I doubt they will be successful. But individuals, be they genuine or not, will not be filtered. Idiots re-posting will only re-inforce the stories. The number of re-posts seems to be a measure of their veracity. In the minds of too many idiots.

I am very careful what Farcebook thinks I am looking at, but as my cursor moves and hovers Farcebook is thinking, and getting it wrong. Algorithms can't be that clever until they reach the event horizon - the Ray Kurzweil definition of same. And then the genie is out of the bottle and we will all be fucked.

Meanwhile the "press" must include Farcebook and Twatter. Not because we think it must, but because they are what people are exposed to en mass and it is driving a wedge between factions. And that leads to war. Recent history proves it.