Facebook Under Fire for the Spread of Fake News
On Facebook, the content is not as important as its ability to engage users.
Social media is an area where ideologies are increasingly bumping up against each other. The problem that social networks face is that they have an incredible power to spread information quickly. So what happens when that information is often false and inflammatory?
Google plans to remove certain sites from its search listing “that misrepresent, misstate or conceal information about the publisher, the publisher’s content or the primary purpose” from their ad ecosystem. This change essentially prohibits sites with bad reputations from appearing at the top of Google’s search results.
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