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Why users can’t resist junk news on Facebook
Facebook’s newsfeed algorithm learns in great detail what we like, and then strives to give us more of the same -- and it's that technology that can be taken advantage of to spread junk news like a virus. Science correspondent Miles O'Brien begins a four-part series on Facebook’s battle against misinformation that began after the 2016 presidential election.
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