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Senator Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) would like Google to know that reports of his death have been greatly exaggerated. The search engine showed that Hatch had died in 2017, apparently based on a bad Wikipedia edit left unchecked. “Hi Google? We might need to talk,” Hatch’s office tweeted on Monday night, with a screenshot of the […]
As Facebook works to stem the flow of inaccurate and false news, the company is finding that it’s not enough just to flag links to fake news stories. On a conference call today with reporters, Facebook announced that it is ramping up its fact-checking efforts, most notably by introducing fact-checking procedures for photos and videos. […]
Thomson Reuters Non-partisan fact-checking website PolitiFact could not keep up with requests and crashed during President Donald Trump’s first-ever State of the Union on Tuesday. “Welp … our website just crashed,” PolitiFact’s website tweeted at 9:49 p.m. EST, only to announce they were back online five minutes later.See the rest of the story at Business Insider NOW […]
It’s not just Facebook that has a fake news advertising problem. Google also found evidence of Russian influence in the most recent US presidential election, and reportedly set up anti-Muslim ads (which it subsequently shut down). Now, according to a report in The New York Times, fake ads that look like news are appearing on […]
Facebook made much ado about bringing on third-party fact-checkers to curb fake news. However, it has faced accusations that the fact-checkers themselves are biased — allegedly, too many of them skew to the left. And it appears that Facebook wants to alter this perception. Quartz sources claim that Facebook has signed on conservative magazine Weekly […]
Enlarge / David Mikkelson, the founder of Snopes, seen here at the US Embassy in Vienna, in June 2017. (credit: US Embassy Vienna) As of Tuesday evening, Snopes.com, one of the Internet’s most longstanding fact-checking websites, successfully raised over $ 600,000 in less than 48 hours—an effort to stay afloat while an ugly legal battle […]
