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Why Facebook & Google Can’t Afford to Legitimize Fake News Sources

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In the 1890s, it was called yellow journalism and was a tactic designed by greedy newspaper publishers to sell more newspapers using scandalous (and not necessarily true) headlines. A PR rep might pitch a news publication without first getting the company’s lawyer’s okay, or getting approval on a quote she passes along.

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