As we all have woken up today the first story on the news is about the sad Las Vegas shooting. Sadly, there have been many fake news stories about who exactly the shooter is. According to from Google and Facebook, the man was being identified who was an anti-Trump liberal who the FBI was associating him with the Islamic state. Another big mainstream from Google and Facebook was the man who did the mass shooting just recently converted to Islamic. Facebook and Google had both defended their cases how this fake news traveled from them. Google argued their case that a toxic message board called the 4Chan were researching on how to pin the shooting on the liberals. Facebook explained their case that "Alt-Right News" who made a post that claimed he was a Trump hating liberal. Both Google and Facebook had argued that the fault of this madness and fake news is algorithm errors. Facebook and Google both apologized for the confusion of the false story and stated they are trying to work to prevent from this happening in the future. According to the article, they state that this isn't a first time where Google, Facebook, 4Chan, Twitter, and Reddit has to mislead millions of people with false information. Especially when campaigns were in it was misleading millions of people with wrong information.
More information on false news besides the shooting is in this article:
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/02/business/las-vegas-shooting-fake-news.html
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