Of course, it doesn’t help when the fake new stories are being offered up by what you might otherwise assume to be a credible source of information—like from Microsoft’s Bing. If you visit the Bing website, it defaults to a beautiful picture of the day with a white Bing search box in the middle. If you click on News, it automatically populates the search field with “top stories”. The name of the YouTube channel is “Top Stories Today,” so it automatically ranks higher in a search for “top stories” because it’s right in the name. For what it’s worth, this only seems to happen if the first link you click on from the Bing website is News.

Source: Forbes February 01, 2018 03:11 UTC