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After Las Vegas Shooting, Fake News Regains Its Megaphone

by Margaret Schoen on 2017-10-02T21:13:00-04:00 | 0 Comments

Both Google and Facebook promoted false information and fake news stories in the wake of the Las Vegas shootings, as pranksters and conspiracy theorists tricked the algorithms the sites use to decide what to post, according to The New York Times.


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