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on Saturday November 19 2016, @11:52PM
from the so-when-does-real-news-become-fake-news dept.
from the so-when-does-real-news-become-fake-news dept.
Earlier this week Google announced that its advertising tools will soon be closed to websites that promote fake news, a policy that could cut off revenue streams for publications that peddle hoaxes on platforms like Facebook.
The Verge reports:
The decision comes at a critical time for the tech industry, whose key players have come under fire for not taking neccesary steps to prevent fake news from proliferating across the web during the 2016 US election. It's thought that, given the viral aspects of fake news, social networks and search engines were gamed by partisan bad actors intending to influence the outcome of the race.
What constitutes 'fake' news?
Who decides what is 'fake'?
Who is a 'partisan bad actor'?
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday November 20 2016, @02:23AM
maybe with all the attention about eavesdropping and lose of privacy enough people have gone "underground" with their communication that now enough information is reliably flowing over secured channels that the powers that are are getting cold feet. so instead of outright banning unofficial eavedrop proof communication they are resorting to seeding false information to make their monitored and censored com channels look more thrustworthy?