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from the no-more-profits-from-false-prophets dept.
Google and Facebook finally announced steps to tackle fake news on their respective platforms this week following increasing pressure from critics eager to halt the flow of falsehoods online.
Both companies said they will prohibit fake news websites from advertising on their platforms, thus reducing the exposure of such articles to the public while also starving the companies of an important source of advertising income.
The move comes after the companies received a wave of criticism over its role in propagating misinformation, particularly in this election cycle in which many observed that a bitter partisan war was potentially worsened by polarizing news sources touting untrue assertions. While the technology companies have in the past been hesitant to mediate the flow of news, this change might signal a change in thought as they come to grip with the real-life implications of lackluster surveillance on their platforms.
Wrongthink will not be permitted, citizens.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday November 18 2016, @07:18PM
Ugh, there really is no hope for a valid discussion here. I agree the GP threw around some pretty nasty labels, but quite a few are true.
full on infanticide if they can get away with it
See, its not a lie to say the conservatives want to ban gay marriage because it hurts their "feelz". How does it impact you? How do straight marriages suffer from the fact that two homosexual people are married??? The conservative base is authoritarian and the opposite of freedom (except within your confined modes of thinking) and spewing shit like infanticide just shows how much kool-aid you've swallowed.
Sweet baby jesus, jmorris you make me understand why some people predict that civil war is the only next step. There is no reasoning with you at all, your viewpoints are so polarized that there is no discussion. Just angry yelling back and forth.