Tech giants are drawing political fire over fake news and Russian meddlingNicholas Terry understands the internet’s darker side better than most. A history lecturer at Exeter University,Terry is an expert on antisemitism and runs a blog examining Holocaust denial and its dissemination online.“Youve got three separate phenomena converging,” he says. “One is the fake news stuff, or promulgated by the likes of Facebook and Twitter,which is trying to promote specific deceptive stories in genuine time for immediate impact; second, there’s the ideological bubble – people only reading leftwing or rightwing news sites; and then there’s this effort by fringe movements on Holocaust denial to make their websites peek respectable and to hoodwink (to deceive) readers into thinking what they’re reading is OK.”Continue reading...
Source: guardian.co.uk