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by tbrowbdidnso 3390 days ago
Fake news is just a new version of spam sites. They mostly exist to make money or enforce an agenda.

People figured out that Google's algorithms could tell when things were generally factually false, unless those things were recent news.

This leads me to believe their algorithms largely relied on news as a source of truth. They're going to have to do something about that