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    Facebook and Google enabled fake-news links to Las Vegas shooting hoaxes

    by By David Pierson, Los Angeles Times Oct 02, 2017 3 minutes

    Accuracy matters in the moments after a tragedy. Facts can help catch suspects, save lives and prevent panic.

    But after the mass shootings in Las Vegas Sunday, the world's two biggest gateways for information, Google and Facebook, did nothing to quell criticism that they amplify fake news when they steered readers toward hoaxes and misinformation gathering momentum on fringe sites.

    Google posted under its "top stories" conspiracy-laden links from 4chan - home to some of the internet's most ardent trolls. It also promoted a now-deleted story from Gateway Pundit and served videos

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