Google, Facebook Work to Ban Fake News

The technology companies have announced new measures to prevent fake news stories from reaching their users.

[ineffablebeing]

Then we should start shutting down the mainstream channels as well.

[roninseeder]

Mainstream media cohorts deciding what's "fake news"....did anyone elses head just explode?

[exxodas]

Fake news reporting on fake news. How ironic.

[snekerone]

I am watching a fake news channel telling me to not pay attention to other fake news channels. Like what the fuck.

[bangun]

well they should start with main stream media hello.

[tacitdionysus]

So they're shutting down all of social media???

[kayok]

I'd love to see how they will do this shut down their own sites.

[dankdreamz]

How quickly we forget, Facebook and google were manipulating search results during the summer. Remember the Hilary auto-fill debacle? The absurdity is overwhelming and I love it. Thanks for the lolz

[ryanlefler]

Get it through your head, establishment: The internet is free and open source, and it is going to stay that way!

[adonblustar]

this is censorship, this is what we should be protesting in front of Google right now.

[thgradedropout]

Computing Forever just put a great post up on the 'Regressive News' segment. You should all check it out.

[albertoramirez]

Will CNN MSNBC and the New York Times follow suit? The American people are not all stupid!

[TheLuckyShepherd]

WE THE INTERNET PEOPLE WILL JUST SWITCH TO ANOTHER SITE IF YOU TRY AND SUPPRESS US... BUT YEA THE FAKE NEWS CLICKBAIT IS ANNOYING.

[lagnafirby]

PBS, NBC, ABC, CBS are all going to be banned from broadcasting because that's what I'm hearing let's go at the fox in there too

[TheAvolicia]

PS I'm talking fake stuff about everything, dont try to say it helped make D.T.get elected not buying it.

[TheAvolicia]

god, just read headline only, and if that's true that you'll screen bad no news.thank you I'm so sick of it

[rastakalliman]

Hahaha 😂 They said that with a straight face 😂😅