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UK Parliament Demands Facebook Fight ‘Fake News’ Ahead of General Election

26-4-2017 < Red Ice Creations 121 144 words
 
UK Parliament Demands Facebook Fight ‘Fake News’ Ahead of General Election A Parliamentary select committee has cited an analysis by the far left site Buzzfeed to imply so-called “fake news” influenced the U.S. election and demanded Facebook censors online content in the lead-up to the general election. Damian Collins, a Conservative MP who chairs the Commons Culture, Media, and Sport Select Committee, demanded the social media platform start blocking or issuing warnings about material perceived to contain falsehoods. “The risk is what happened in America,” Mr. Collins told The Guardian. “The top 20 fake news stories in the last three months of the election were shared more than the top 20 most shared stories that were true,” he added, seemingly referring to claims made by BuzzFeed. Continuing: “The danger is, if for many people the main source of news is Facebook…
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