(Salwan Georges/The Washington Post)People who searched on Google for the Mueller report have been told the document is “fiction,” a baffling falsehood that highlights the fallibility of and threat of misinformation from the world’s most influential search engine. A Google search for the Mueller report, as of June 10. [YouTube recommended a Russian media site thousands of times for analysis of Mueller’s report, a watchdog group says]The Mueller report has become both a political battlefield and a popular search topic by the general public. Print editions of the free report, sold by The Washington Post and other publishers, have climbed in bestseller lists. In April, one week after the Mueller report was revealed, YouTube automatically sent hundreds of thousands of recommendations to viewers that they watch a video decrying the investigation as a conspiracy theory.

Source: Washington Post June 10, 2019 16:20 UTC