Google’s chief business officer: ‘We have to take the fake news problem very, very seriously’

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Says Google already cuts fake-news publishers from AdSense and adds fact-check labels in Google News, and reports discovering and removing hundreds of offending sites after policy changes. Claims YouTube has over a billion users and large mobile watch time (over 50% on mobile), plans to apply machine learning to detect misinformation, and warns drawing lines between fake news, bad journalism and censorship is difficult while continuing rapid policy and enforcement updates.

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