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Has the rise of fake news plunged democracy into crisis? Some UK politicians believe it has.
Britain should have more powers to regulate and scrutinize the world's largest tech companies, says a report published Sunday by Parliament's committee investigating fake news.
The report paints a picture in which people's data is being manipulated and voters are being targeted without their knowledge via disinformation and hate campaigns on social media that are designed to skew the results of elections and referenda.
In particular, the report calls out Facebook for its contribution to the spread of fake news and centres its recommendations around getting social media companies to take greater responsibility for "misleading and harmful content" on their sites.
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Comment: Ok as long as they do it to National Enquirer and all the other trash papers on the news stands. They are what started fake news.
Hoyt
(54,770 posts)the problem. And, if we are talking about believing lies favorable to trump, odds are those same people would have voted for him anyway, with or without the lies and distortions.