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Digiday: ‘A petri dish of bullshit’: Confessions of ex-Facebook news curators

Adam Schrader could have seen this coming. The 26-year-old former Facebook employee was anything but shocked when the social network entered meltdown mode over being infested with fake news during the presidential election.

Schrader had been under the hood. A former member of its now-defunct trending-news team, he monitored a feed of stories gaining traction on Facebook, vetted them for accuracy (or at least truth) and wrote  a headline for Facebook’s public trending-news feed.