Social Media and Google Takes Action Against Fake News Creators
Google, Facebook, and other social media websites have decided to make campaign against “fake news” creators. They want to secure their platforms from foreign governments, which are deploying misleading content on their sites and are spreading threat level among social media users. According to experts, the threat level is high on social media platforms. It is the bad impact of some culprits, who use such platforms for spreading threats for varied things. Reportedly, many Russian actors have used social media sites for posting photos to influencing 2016 elections. Although, it is found that Russia is the source spreading false information about elections over social channel like Facebook and Search Engine like Google. They are trying to combat hoaxes and distribute negative impression about them. Reportedly, in December Google has launched a set of features which enables users to point out or flag false content, stories, photos, etc., if, they are ambiguous and shows ...