Attack in Las Vegas: Google, Facebook and Twitter criticized for the broadcast of "fake news"

Attack in Las Vegas: Google, Facebook and Twitter criticized for the broadcast of "fake news"

After the murderous shooting that occurred on Sunday night in Las Vegas, several erroneous rumors have circulated on the internet and the web behemoths had a hard time stemming these fake news.
On Google, it is a screenshot of the 4chan forum that appeared in the tab "Top Stories", supposed to present reliable sources, when users were doing a search on Geary Danley , presented by some as the author of the killing. But this man is not involved in any way in this tragedy.

Google defended itself by pointing out that the 4chan thread did not go back in the selected information until you did a search on Geary Danley and not by making a more general query such as "Las Vegas shooting". "We use several criteria to determine the hierarchy of results, including the reliability of a site and the date of its update," said the company, while apologizing and promising to work on improvements to avoid such blunders.
Facebook apologizes
On Facebook, it is the page reserved for the safety check, a device allowing people close to the place of a disaster to prevent and reassure their surroundings, which was complacent to the fake news. In the section referring to news articles were links to sites close to the US extreme right claiming that the killer was an opponent to Donald Trump. Again, Facebook apologized by explaining to Fast Company that the link was removed.
Finally, on Twitter, rumors and intox have inevitably circulated, and continue to be broadcast. But the microblogging site told Business Insider that it "takes action against content that does not respect the terms of use".