Google Changes Rules to Purge News That Masks Country of Origin

Found on Bloomberg on Sunday, 17 December 2017
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Google moved to strip from its news search results publications that mask their country of origin or intentionally mislead readers, a further step to curb the spread of fake news that has plagued internet companies this year.

“We update our policies on a regular basis to reflect a constantly changing web and how people look for information online,” a Google spokeswoman wrote in a statement.

Fake or not, it is not the job of a search engine to decide what users are supposed to read.