Facebook drops the hammer but did anyone hear it?

We might be through the looking glass after the relatively muted reaction to Facebook's actually doing something about fake news

'Serious win' for Facebook. Pic: Getty

A whopping 650fake news pages pushing a pro-Iranian agenda were taken down in a calculated sting operation by the world’s most powerful social network.

Wait, give me a second here.

The scourge of society, fake news, took a hammering as Facebook finally said no more by taking down a stunning 650 fake news pages in scenes like the big climactic bit of the movie Hackers.

Still not quite enough. Hmm, ok, that scourge ...