The day after one of the worst mass shootings in recent US history, 4chan fooled everyone about who the gunman was. And this time “everyone” was not a smattering of local and national outlets fooled by tweets, fake hashtags or prank interviews on broadcast television, but major and all-powerful information networks like Google and Facebook. The 4chan threads became a basis for an article on The Gateway Pundit and somehow ended up trending, at the top of the page, on both Facebook and Google. Both Google and Facebook apologized on Monday, saying the 4chan posts and fake news Gateway Pundit story achieved their number one spots because of automatic algorithms. A Facebook spokesman speaking to the Huffington Post: “Our Global Security Operations Center spotted these posts this morning and we have removed them.

Source: Forbes October 03, 2017 19:52 UTC