How to Stop the Flow of Toxic News

Facebook’s political hate speech announcement needs a next step

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Facebook has announced that it will start more aggressively policing hate speech from politicians instead of blankedly tagging hateful talk as “newsworthy” and letting it slide.

Great, I say. But there’s more it has to do to make things right: