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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, @05:33PM
O rly? [revelist.com]
Nice selective memory you've got there. [thehill.com]
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday November 21 2016, @12:53AM
yeah, totally dude. because the Right were physically assaulting blacks en-mass for voting Obama in 2008, burning down their own neighborhoods and other disgusting acts, all while the media cheered them. /s
now, I'm not saying there weren't a few outliers, but turn the tables, and actually have whites physically attacking blacks, and its a hate crime, but when its blacks attacking whites, its not racism, it's just anti-racism and anti-oppression, or whatever else the MSM want to promote it as to keep a divide among the populace.