President Barack Obama has spoken out about fake news on Facebook and other media platforms, suggesting that it helped undermine the US political process. “If everything seems to be the same and no distinctions are made, then we won’t know what to protect. These comments come after Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg rejected the “crazy idea” that fake news on the social network swayed voters in the US presidential election. “The goal of search is to provide the most relevant and useful results for our users,” a Google spokeswoman said. Although this reduces the financial incentive to generate fake news websites, it doesn’t tackle the distribution of such content on Facebook.

Source: The Guardian November 18, 2016 00:04 UTC