Maybe Facebook Needs Satire Tags After All

Ebola hysteria is fueling fake news-sharing on social media. Perhaps Facebook's derided satire tags are necessary after all.

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Facebook has been testing satire tags for fake news sites like The Onion, prompting derision from the satirical news site itself. We previously wrote about how such a tag would take the fun out of the joke:

The problem with tagging satire as satire is that it removes all the power from the joke. Hopefully, most people understand that satire is what The Onion does. While the satire tag isn’t breaking a core feature, it does pretty much ruin the joke for any satire publication out there that might get tagged in this new initiative.

However,

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