In the immediate aftermath of the Las Vegas shooting, people turned to Facebook and Google, looking for news about what happened and, in some cases, updates about their friends and loved ones in the area. In a statement, a Google spokesperson conceded that the search engine giant's algorithm was "briefly surfacing an inaccurate 4chan website" for what it said was a "small number of queries." But the less-than-reliable news circulating in the aftermath of the Las Vegas attack didn't stop with Google. "Our Global Security Operations Center spotted these posts this morning and we have removed them," a Facebook spokesperson told CNN. Simpson quickly pivot to cover mass shootingThe boosting of misinformation comes at a bad time for both Google and Facebook.

Source: CNN October 02, 2017 21:56 UTC