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applegrove

(123,135 posts)
Fri Feb 9, 2018, 05:52 PM Feb 2018

Trudeau to Facebook: Fix your fake news problem or face stricter regulations

By ALEX BOUTILIER at the Toronto Star

https://www.thestar.com/news/canada/2018/02/08/trudeau-to-facebook-fix-your-fake-news-problem-or-else.html

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OTTAWA—Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has warned social networking giant Facebook it needs to fix its “fake news” problems or face stronger regulation from Ottawa.

Trudeau told Facebook chief operating officer Sheryl Sandberg in November he was concerned the company wasn’t doing enough to stop the spread of misleading information on their platform, a source with direct knowledge of the conversation told the Star.

Facebook has been under intense international scrutiny for allowing so-called “fake news” — false and often outlandish information presented as legitimate journalism — to propagate on its network.

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Trudeau to Facebook: Fix your fake news problem or face stricter regulations (Original Post) applegrove Feb 2018 OP
We need someone like him blueinredohio Feb 2018 #1
Believe me, you don't Cedar_son Feb 2018 #2
Regulations like pursuing them for taxes? Cedar_son Feb 2018 #3
 

Cedar_son

(50 posts)
2. Believe me, you don't
Thu Feb 15, 2018, 08:37 AM
Feb 2018

He's a classic, talk big like a progressive while you're handing out corporate welfare to your friends and privatizing public assets.

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