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    Kremlin-Sponsored News Does Really Well on Google

    Should technology companies treat state-funded outlets like RT the same way as they treat <em>The New York Times?</em>
    by Kaveh Waddell Jan 25, 2017 4 minutes
    Source: Yuri Kochetkov / Pool / AP

    In the weeks after the election, tech companies scrambled to shoo fake news off of their platforms. It was too late to stave off pernicious false rumors about Hillary Clinton’s health problems, or her involvement in a nonexistent underground child-prostitution ring, but the companies still moved to make it harder to spread similar misinformation in the future.

    Facebook and Google quickly took aim at the most egregious offenders: websites that peddled deceptive news stories in order to attract hordes of readers and make money off of advertising. Both companies banned those types of sites from their powerful ad networks.

    But there’s a category of often-misleading news sources that seems to have escaped the, a TV network and online news website that’s funded by the Russian government.

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