A journalist who spotted the article's rise said the incident is part of a broader disinformation landscape on Facebook.
The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation had an article about a tiny Canadian province's crackdown on drivers who pass school buses go viral on Facebook — and it speaks to social media's potential to spread misperceptions.
"I was working on a story and looked for most popular article on CBC of the past year and I saw immediately that something that wasn't normal — a super local piece about Canada's smallest province having almost 6 million interactions on Facebook," Yates said. It's the fake news and extremist content on Facebook that's grabbed headlines and led it to partner with fact checkers and put other measures in place to fight the spread of such content on its platform and. But the CBC story is something different. It shows how stories about emotional issues can go viral and be taken out of context, even when they're straight news articles from legitimate news organizations.
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