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'?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday November 20 2016, @03:05AM
Once people realize the fascism that is Google/fb/twitter then we may finally see some adoption of distributed / open networks designed to prevent this sort of control. Let idiots share fake news, only by making such colossal mistakes might any of them learn.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday November 20 2016, @03:50PM
4 years of learning ahead buddy...
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday November 20 2016, @06:05PM
What? How dare you insinuate something like that you leftist baby killer! I'm not your buddy guy :p