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    Google's Mass-Shooting Misinformation Problem

    When no reputable information is available, the search engine promotes fake news.
    by Alexis C. Madrigal Nov 06, 2017 2 minutes
    Source: Mohammad Khursheed / Reuters

    It happened again.

    After a horrifying mass shooting, searching for the shooter’s name on Google surfaced an editor of the conspiracy site InfoWars, a wannabe Julian Assange account claiming the shooter had converted to Islam, and a “news” Twitter feed that’s tweeted a few dozen times since it was created last month.*

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