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Released: November 13, 2012
Facebook’s false faces undermine its credibility
Source: Somini Sengupta, N.Y.Times (Free Registration)
The Facebook page for Gaston Memorial Hospital, in Gastonia, N.C., offers a chicken salad recipe to encourage healthy eating, tips on avoiding injuries at Zumba class, and pictures of staff members dressed up at Halloween. Typical stuff for a hospital in a small town. But in October, another Facebook page for the hospital popped up. This one posted denunciations of President Obama and what it derided as “Obamacare. The fakery problem on Facebook comes in many shapes. Since August, the company has put in place a new automated system to purge fake “likes.”Read Full Article: Facebook’s false faces undermine its credibility
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