Report: Facebook removed references to Russia from fake-news report

Enlarge / Russian President Vladimir Putin. (credit: Wikimedia Commons/Maria Joner) Back in April, Facebook published a report called “Information Operations and Facebook” that detailed the company’s efforts to combat fake news and other misinformation campaigns on the site. The report was released in the midst of an uproar over potential Russian meddling in the 2016 presidential campaign. […]

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Last March, in a 60 Minutessegment on fake news, CBS’s Scott Pelley introduced a vast new audience to Mike Cernovich, touting the pro-Trump blogger and self-help author as a troll “who has become a magnet for readers with a taste for stories with no basis in fact.” For viewers at home, it was a reassuring […]