( CNN) In the run-up to the 2018 midterms, tech business are trying to combat sophisticated misinformation campaigns.
Think back two years to Election Day 2016. Like many other media reporters, I was focused on the challenges of the “fake news” — absolutely fake stuff — made-up narrations that were designed to deceive beings. Profiteers and propagandists were going gangbusters on Facebook and Twitter. The most notorious precedent? A story claiming that Pope Francis had endorsed Donald Trump.
After the election, the tech beings belatedly admitted that they had a real problem on their hands. They started to make changes. But then President-elect Trump was of the view that “fake news” was fabricated by Democrats as an excuse for losing the election.( It wasn’t .) And he exploited his bully pulpit to redefine the term “fake news” to mean storeys he didn’t like.
Lies, blots and scams blighting social media
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