NYT calls out FR for spreading fake news. Does DU?

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2. I think we are not immune to fake news.

I think the real problem on DU is not outright falsehoods, but rather wishful thinking. People are not very skeptical when it comes to information they want to believe is true.

On the other hand, we do have many members here who care about accuracy, and eventually the most egregious falsehoods posted in OPs will get corrected in the replies. But it is pretty rare for the person who posted those false OPs to actually take down the false info once it gets corrected. I have myself posted corrections to false information on a number of occasions, but that doesn't make the OP go away.

When we wrote our new rules back in June, we seriously considered extending the "No kooky, extremist, or hate content" rule to include "No outright falsehoods." But we decided against it because we were concerned that such a rule would be used to remove factually correct posts that go against what people want to hear.