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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: 2) by aristarchus on Saturday November 19 2016, @05:19AM
Yes, versooth! At least P.T. Barnham was only fleecing the Americans of their money, and actually provided some entertainment! Siamese twins, bearded lady, the incredible Fiji Mermaid!!! But jmorris and the alt-right can only produce fake news, like the Pope endoring Trump, Hillary's emails and endless Benghazi!!!!! Plans to take Runaway's 9-11, sorry, his 1911 from him. Profit motivated abortionists, chem-trails, Mormon versions of the Constitution, Vaxxers, Holocaust deniers, Climate change deniers, White supremicists. (This last one is particularly egregious: anyone who has spend any time around the alleged "superior" whites realizes rather quickly that there must be significant genetic damage affecting native intelligence among these volk.)
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And now it comes out that David Ickes has outed Steven Banning as one of the Lizard People! Jmorris! I am calling you out! Prove to SoylentNews that Banning is not one of the Lizard People! Ickes has this on high authority, by direct supernatural subimbularization, or some thing. Can you prove that he is wrong? Well, punk, can ya?