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Fake news & real journalism: A conversation with Snopes editor Brook Binkowski (LPX Show)

by Brad Linder Comments Off on Fake news & real journalism: A conversation with Snopes editor Brook Binkowski (LPX Show)

Fake news has been in the news a lot recently. In the months leading up to the 2016 election Buzzfeed and others were pointing to the growing trend of “hyper partisan” fictional news stories spreading on social media. In the days after the election, Facebook and Google announced they’d be banning fake news sites from […]

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US election aftermath: Twitter cracks down on harassment, Facebook and Google ad networks ban fake news sites

by Brad Linder Comments Off on US election aftermath: Twitter cracks down on harassment, Facebook and Google ad networks ban fake news sites

The 2016 presidential election results have wide-ranging implications in a number of fields. In the tech world, we’re already starting to see the impact as Google and Facebook take steps to combat fake news sites (which some people blame for distributing misinformation during the lead-up to the election), and Twitter’s move to roll out new […]