Facebook in crosshairs as fake news battle heats up

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Last week, Google and Facebook moved to cut off ad revenue to bogus

news sites. But media watchers say more is needed to stamp out a
powerful phenomenon seen by some people as a threat to democracy itself.
One of those people is President Barack Obama, who has warned that fake news threatens the basic principle of freedom of speech.
"If everything seems to be the same and no distinctions are made, then we won't know what to protect," Obama said during a visit to Germany.
The hoaxes of the 2016 election season were in many cases spectacular—"Did the Clintons Commit Murder?"—and created by groups purely out to make money from clicks and ads.

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