WASHINGTON - Google and Facebook moved Tuesday to cut off advertising revenue to bogus news sites, acting after criticism of the role fake news played in the US presidential election. Google and Facebook cut off advertising revenue to bogus news sites"We've been working on an update to our publisher policies and will start prohibiting Google ads from being placed on misrepresentative content, just as we disallow misrepresentation in our ads policies," a Google statement to AFP said. "While implied, we have updated the policy to explicitly clarify that this applies to fake news. On Monday, internet users searching on Google were delivered a bogus report saying Trump won the popular vote in addition to the Electoral College. The blog urged those petitioning for the Electoral College to switch their votes to reflect popular will to scrap their effort.

Source: Bangkok Post November 15, 2016 15:45 UTC