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Google Has Its Own 'Fake News' Problem

While critics continue to bash Facebook for spreading fake and misleading news, Google doesn’t seem to be doing much better. “If you Googled 'final election count' on Monday morning to find out which presidential candidate was ahead in the popular vote, you might have noticed something strange about the search results,” Business Insider writes. “Namely, the top Google News result links to a Wordpress blog called '70 News,' which claims that Donald Trump won the popular vote by a margin of almost 700,000 votes, and cites Twitter as its source.”

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  1. lew alpert from chilmark digital, November 14, 2016 at 5:41 p.m.

    Here's a thought why doesn't Facebook and Google get togther for the sake of the truth and  by the way the country  and use their AI knowledge and expertise in, to devlop a # truthful index

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