Germany Considers Fining Facebook $522,000 per Fake News Item
This would set a very frightening precedent. Will they also fine reddit every time a misleading story is submitted to a subreddit?<p>Most of the fake news articles made during the election were poorly written hoaxes with the goal of collecting ad revenue. Without any of them, Trump still would&#x27;ve won. But even if a foreign nation is spreading propaganda through news articles, unless it calls for violence or other crimes, I don&#x27;t see why Facebook has an obligation to remove them.