Google, Facebook, Twitter fail to live up to fake news pledge

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Google, Facebook and Twitter have fallen short of their pledges to combat fake n...

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The tech companies and trade bodies representing the advertising industry signed up to a voluntary code of conduct in October to tackle the spread of fake news, aiming to stave off more heavy-handed legislation. Europe’s Security Commissioner Julian King criticized the lack of progress on cracking down on fake news made by the three companies based on their monthly reports.

Facebook has not provided details of its actions against political ads in January nor the number of fake accounts deleted due to malicious activities targeting the European Union, the Commission said.

 

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How about they let users decide what news is fake and stop picking favorites.

Shocker

They shouldn’t even try. They will only make it worse by using stupid AI to combat humans who create fake news. Especially when they fuse with the government to sensor. It is creating a state sanctioned shitty big brother, which is so resented that it leads to their own demise.

If Google, Facebook, and Twitter agreed to ban fake news, CNN would be left to spread FakeNews solely on its own network.

Yeah no shit.. u should checkout cnn msnbc Hate machines

It could be very dangerous to have these corporations control so much of the information in our world. They already try to silence FreeSpeech.. ALL SPEECH must be protected!

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