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Facebook and post sharing - Are they helping push #fakeNews over fact sharing?

(If you want to share this post on twitter, feel free to retweet me ) I recently attempted to re-share an end-of-year facebook post from a few years back and add some extra comments in light of 2020. The post I was trying to share had a link in it. When attempting to share that post, the share ONLY included the link from the original post and not the text I'd added to it. I'm not the only one to have seen this - I found this article talking about the same topic - facebook used to have an option to share the original text before the redesign, but it is no longer there. Also their help pages explicitly state : "When a friend shares a link that you posted, they can share the link with a wider audience than you originally shared it with. Keep in mind that any text you added in your post will not be shared"   Why is this a problem? The issue ONLY exists with posts that have links in them. A normal post with just text CAN be shared. If I'm trying to provide reference