Google and Facebook Take Aim at Fake News Sites – The New York Times (Nov 14, 2016)
Much of the attention around fake news and the tech sector has focused on Facebook, because it’s the funnel for so much of the stuff people actually see, and because its algorithms tend to create bubbles in which a false sense of reality can take root relatively unchallenged. However, many of those actually peddling fake news monetize through Google ads, and so Google stepping in to help turn off the revenue spigot for some of these sites should go a long way towards shutting down at least some of them.
via Google and Facebook Take Aim at Fake News Sites – The New York Times
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