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The government on Thursday said it has blocked more than 60 social media accounts, including <keyword id="10879" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="youtube" source="Orion">YouTube</keyword> channels and <a href="https://www.businessinsider.in/tech/enterprise/news/meta-chime-file-joint-complaint-against-phishing-attacks-on-facebook-and-instagram/articleshow/89445529.cms" data-type="tilCustomLink">Facebook and Instagram</a> pages, in the last two months for spreading anti-India fake news. Replying to supplementary questions in the Upper House, Minister for State for Information and Broadcasting L Murugan said the government is very much concerned about the freedom of speech and freedom of expression.<br /><br />Asked about action taken against those spreading fake news, and publishers of anti-national material, he said more than 60 accounts have been blocked including those on YouTube, Twitter, <keyword id="6354576" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="facebook" source="Orion">Facebook</keyword> and <keyword id="819905" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="instagram" source="Orion">Instagram</keyword>.<br /><br />"These YouTube channels are sponsored from Pakistan," he said.<br /><br />On fake news through newspapers, the minister said the Press Council of India is an autonomous statutory body and takes care of the journalists ethics code.<br /><br />"Journalists have to follow ethics code. Wherever they have not followed the ethics code under the Press Council Act Section 14, action has to be initiated. In more than 150 cases, we took action against them," he said.<br /><br />Asked about Techfog app roles in spreading fake news, Murugan said the government has established a fact check unit, which has responded to more than 30,000 queries.<br /><br />This unit is also verifying viral fake news, he added.<br /><br />According to an official statement, the ministry on January 21 had ordered blocking of 35 YouTube based news channels and two websites which were involved in spreading anti-India fake news in a coordinated manner over digital media. Additionally, two Twitter accounts, two Instagram accounts, and one Facebook account were blocked.<br /><br />In December also, 20 YouTube channels and two websites were blocked, the official statement had said.<br /><br />In a written reply to the starred question, Information and Broadcasting Minister Anurag Singh Thakur said the government has statutory and institutional mechanisms in place to combat fake news.<br /><br />A "Fact Check Unit" has been setup under the Press Information Bureau of this Ministry in November, 2019 which takes cognisance of fake news both suo motu and by way of queries sent by citizens on its portal or through e-mail and WhatsApp.<br /><br />"The unit responds to relevant queries with correct information when the same pertains to Central Government or forwards them to States/UTs in other cases. The Unit also maintains a Twitter account @PIBFactcheck and posts cases of fake news, being busted, on the same on regular basis. PIB Fact Check Unit has so far responded to 30,533 actionable queries," he said.<br /><br />For print media, the Press Council of India (PCI), a statutory autonomous body set up under the Press Council Act, 1978, has framed "Norms of Journalistic Conduct" for adherence by the media.<br /><br />These norms emphasise the principles of accuracy and fairness as well as pre-publication verification.<br /><br />The PCI has formulated specific norms to refrain print media from publication/ dissemination of fake or false news.<br /><br />For electronic media (Television), all TV channels are required to adhere to the Programme Code under the Cable Television Networks (Regulation) Act, 1995.<br /><br />As per the code, programmes should not contain anything obscene defamatory, deliberate, false and suggestive innuendos and half-truths.<br /><br />For digital news, the government has notified the Information Technology (Intermediary Guidelines and Digital Media Ethics Code) Rules, 2021 on February 25 2021, under the Information Technology Act, 2000 which inter alia provides for a Code of Ethics for adherence by digital news publishers.<br /><br />"Appropriate action is taken in cases where violation of norms, codes etc., are found. The government also issues advisory from time to time to the media to adhere to the laid down codes," Thakur said.

Government blocks over 60 social media accounts for allegedly spreading anti-India fake news

<strong><br /></strong><ul><li><strong>The Election Commission of India is setting up a panel to analyse the relationship between news and social media platforms. </strong></li><li><strong>The panel will determine violations and possible penalties. <br /></strong></li><li><strong>With the general elections around the corner, it’s speculated that religious and ethnic tensions will only increase in the coming months.</strong></li></ul>The past few months India has been embroiled in increasing incidents of lynchings instigated, in part, by <keyword id="2479020" type="PERSON" weightage="20" keywordseo="Fake-news">fake news</keyword> on social media platforms. And, in the light of the general elections drawing closer next year, the Election Commission of India has taken the initiative to <a href="https://www.business-standard.com/article/current-affairs/how-india-plans-to-curb-hate-speech-ahead-of-the-world-s-biggest-election-118081300038_1.html">establish a panel </a>that will analyse the interaction of social media and news. <br /><br />As per reports, the panel is going to examine the role of social media platforms like <keyword id="790242" type="COMPANY" weightage="20" keywordseo="WhatsApp">WhatsApp</keyword>, <keyword id="6354576" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="20" keywordseo="facebook">Facebook</keyword> and YouTube and recommend ways to deal with violations. <br /><br />Around the world, Malaysia, Singapore and the Philippines are also mulling over their options to counter fake news. Germany, on the other hand, has already passed a legislation that requires social media networks to remove hate speech from their platforms.<br /><br /><strong>A worrying trend<br /></strong><br />In recent months, India has borne witness to a rise in religious and ethnic sentiment. In 2018 alone, there have been at least 24 people killed in the name of public justice where the accusations have been based on fake news of child kidnapping and cow smuggling.<br /><br />While some blame the lack of regulations over social media, the opposition party, along with the Supreme Court in India, <a href="https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/politics-and-nation/lynching-due-to-rising-intolerance-supreme-court/articleshow/65032756.cms">blames</a> PM Modi and the ruling faction for the disturbing pattern of rising intolerance. Modi, on the other hand, <a href="https://www.hindustantimes.com/india-news/politics-on-lynchings-shows-perverse-mindset-says-pm-modi-on-opposition-criticism/story-b21x2hwxtOzYMVK55VvZcP.html">retaliated</a> by stating that reducing such cases to ‘mere statistics’ for the sake of politics shows a perverse mindset in a situation where there should be unity.<br /><br />In a prior attempt to curb fake news, the Information and Broadcasting Ministry issued a press release that stated that the accreditation of a journalist could be annulled if the person is found propagating or generating fake news in any way.<br /><br />But, that was scrapped within 24 hours. <br /><br />Rather than be about reducing fake news, the measure drew criticism that it was just another way to muzzle the Indian media. Because, if a piece of news is even ‘suspected’ to be fake, the journalist would be suspended for upto 15 days while the Press Council of India analyses the case.<br /><br />It’s also important to recognise that fake news is not an ‘India’ problem but a <a href="https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/chennai/intolerance-fake-news-not-just-medias-concern-its-a-global-problem/articleshow/60503565.cms">global</a> phenomenon. The ease and speed with which information can travel nowadays makes it easier for negative elements to take advantage of the system.<br /><br />With the elections coming up, it’s <a href="https://www.ucanews.com/news/fears-of-violence-loom-large-ahead-of-indian-election/82519">speculated</a> that intolerance may take a turn for the worse depending on whether the election is fought on the back of the Hindu nationhood ideology of Hindutva or economic growth and development.<br />

India sets up a panel to monitor fake news ahead of the general elections

<p>Following criticism over fake news on its platform, Google plans to remove its "In the news" section from the top of desktop search results in a matter of weeks, according to a source familiar with the matter. </p><p>It will be replaced by a carousel of "Top stories" similar to what now exists on mobile. This move had been planned for quite some time, the source said.</p><p>The removal of the word "news" will, hopefully, help draw a sharper line between Google's human-vetted Google News product, and its main search product. </p><p><span>Earlier this week, Google </span><a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/google-playing-inaccurate-top-news-search-result-about-popular-vote-2016-11">faced scrutiny</a> <span>when one of its top results for "final election count" was fake news. The top result in Google Search's "In the news" section was a Wordpress blog named "70 News," which falsely claimed Trump won the popular vote by a margin of almost 700,000. He didn't.</span></p><p><span>Here's what it looked like:</span></p><p><span><div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table"><div><div class="image on-image"><p class="source"><span>Business Insider</span></p></div><p></p></div></div></span></p><p><span>Many thought that Google News, the company's news section that requires publications to be approved by a committee to get in, had been duped. But actually, it hadn't.</span></p><p><span>What had been fooled was Google's "In the news" module, which sits at the top of news-related search pages, and pulls "newsy" stories from across the web, not just sites that have been approved by Google News' team. In this case, "70 News" hadn't been vetted by Google News.</span></p><p><span>Google's search results, in contrast to Google News, are not assessed for "truth." Google's algorithms still do a good job at sniffing out fake news sites because Google is set up to catch "spam." But Google's algorithms will likely never be perfect at telling what information on a website is inaccurate.</span></p><p><span>Google does want to try to get fake news completely off search as well, however.</span></p><p><span>"From our perspective, there should just be no situation where fake news gets distributed, so we are all for doing better here," Google CEO Sundar Pichai said recently. </span></p><p><span>After the issue of fake news entered the spotlight after the election, Google also announced it would ban fake-news sites from its ad network, choking off their revenue. </span></p><p>To better understand the difference between Google News and Google Search, <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/google-has-a-fake-news-loophole-2016-11">here's more comprehensive look at Google's fake-news problem</a>.</p>    <div class="margin-top">        <h3>NOW WATCH: <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/heres-why-you-should-never-deep-fry-frozen-turkey-2016-11">Here's why you should never deep-fry a frozen turkey</a></h3>        <div>            <div>        <div class="ooyala-video-player" data-video-autoplay="false" data-video-id="diMjNwNzE63L-FxgLys6pmGBlamhPd2l" data-player-variable="ooyalapopvideo" id="ooyalaplayer_popvideo" style="width:1280px;height:720px"></div>        </div>        </div>            </div>

Google plans to remove the 'In the news' section from its desktop search following 'fake news' criticism

<p>In the wake of criticism over fake news on its platform, Google is removing its "In the news" section from the top of desktop search, and replacing it with a carousel of "Top stories," similar to what exists on mobile.</p><p>This move had been planned for quite some time, and is being rolled out globally, according to Google. (Business Insider <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/google-removing-in-the-news-from-desktop-search-2016-11">previously reported</a> that a change was in the works).</p><p>Here is what a search for "Fake News" returns now:</p><p><div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table"><div><div class="image on-image"><p class="source"><span>Business Insider</span></p></div><p></p></div></div></p><p>The removal of the word "news" will, hopefully, help draw a sharper line between Google's human-vetted Google News product, and its main search product. </p><p><span>Last month, Google </span><a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/google-playing-inaccurate-top-news-search-result-about-popular-vote-2016-11">faced scrutiny</a> <span>when one of its top results for "final election count" was fake news. The top result in Google Search's "In the news" section was a Wordpress blog named "70 News," which falsely claimed Trump won the popular vote by a margin of almost 700,000. (He didn't).</span></p><p><span>Here's what it looked like (and what the "In the news" module generally looked like):</span></p><p><span><div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table"><div><div class="image on-image"><p class="source"><span>Business Insider</span></p></div><p></p></div></div></span></p><p><span>Many thought that Google News, the company's news section that requires publications to be approved by a committee to get in, had been duped. But it hadn't. </span><span>What had been fooled was Google's "In the news" module, which sat at the top of news-related search pages, and pulled "newsy" stories from across the web, not just sites that have been approved by Google News' team. In this case, "70 News" hadn't been vetted by Google News.</span></p><p><span>Google's search results, in contrast to Google News, are not assessed for "truth." Google's algorithms still do a good job at sniffing out fake news sites because Google is set up to catch "spam." But Google's algorithms will likely never be perfect at telling what information on a website is inaccurate.</span></p><p><span>Google does want to try to get fake news completely off search as well, however.</span></p><p><span>"From our perspective, there should just be no situation where fake news gets distributed, so we are all for doing better here," Google CEO Sundar Pichai said recently. </span></p><p><span>After the issue of fake news entered the spotlight after the election, Google also announced it would ban fake-news sites from its ad network, choking off their revenue. </span></p><p>To better understand the difference between Google News and Google Search, <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/google-has-a-fake-news-loophole-2016-11">here's more comprehensive look at Google's fake-news problem</a>.</p>    <div class="margin-top">        <h3>NOW WATCH: <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/heres-why-you-should-never-deep-fry-frozen-turkey-2016-11">Here's why you should never deep-fry a frozen turkey</a></h3>        <div>            <div>        <div class="ooyala-video-player" data-video-autoplay="false" data-video-id="diMjNwNzE63L-FxgLys6pmGBlamhPd2l" data-player-variable="ooyalapopvideo" id="ooyalaplayer_popvideo" style="width:1280px;height:720px"></div>        </div>        </div>            </div>

Google has replaced its 'In the news' section on desktop search, which was a target of 'fake news' criticism

<ul class="summary-list"><li>President <keyword id="6354484" type="PERSON" weightage="60" keywordseo="Donald-Trump">Donald Trump</keyword> sparred with the "<keyword id="85287" type="COMPANY" weightage="60" keywordseo="Fox-News">Fox News</keyword> Sunday" host <keyword id="625989" type="PERSON" weightage="60" keywordseo="Chris-Wallace">Chris Wallace</keyword> over COVID-19 mortality in the US, leading Trump to accuse Wallace of being "fake news."</li><li>In the interview, Trump falsely claimed that the US had "one of the lowest mortality rates in the world" from COVID-19.</li><li>Wallace, however, cited Johns Hopkins University data that showed the US ranking poorly.</li><li>"I hope you show the scenario because this is what fake news is all about," Trump said, to which Wallace countered, "I don't think I'm fake news."</li></ul><p>President Donald Trump and the "Fox News Sunday" host Chris Wallace sparred over COVID-19 mortality in the US, leading Trump to accuse Wallace of being "fake news."</p><p><a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/transcript-fox-news-sunday-interview-with-president-trump?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A%20foxnews%2Fpolitics%20%28Internal%20-%20Politics%20-%20Text%290Text%29">In the new interview</a>, which aired Sunday morning, Wallace pushed back on Trump's assertions that the US had some of the lowest COVID-19 mortality in the world.</p><p>Trump lamented why more attention wasn't being paid to Mexico's high numbers of COVID-19 cases and claimed, without evidence, that portions of walls and fences along the US-Mexico border were helping stop the spread of COVID-19.</p><p>"Our mortality rate is higher than Brazil, it's higher than Russia, and the European Union has us on a travel ban," <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/transcript-fox-news-sunday-interview-with-president-trump?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A%20foxnews%2Fpolitics%20%28Internal%20-%20Politics%20-%20Text%290Text%29">Wallace said</a>, citing Johns Hopkins University data.</p><p>"Yeah. I think what we'll do — well, we have them under travel ban too, Chris," Trump responded. "I closed them off. If you remember — I was the one that did the European Union very early. But when you talk about mortality rates, I think it's the opposite. I think we have one of the lowest mortality rates in the world."</p><p>"It's not true, sir," Wallace countered. "We had 900 deaths on a single day this week — you can check it out."</p><p>Trump then beckoned the White House press secretary, Kayleigh McEnany, to bring him a chart purportedly showing the US having a "No. 1 low mortality rate."</p><p>"I hope you show the scenario because this is what fake news is all about," Trump said.</p><p>"I don't think I'm fake news," Wallace countered.</p><p><a href="https://coronavirus.jhu.edu/data/mortality">Data from Johns Hopkins University</a>, which Wallace cited, lists 20 countries as "currently most affected by COVID-19 worldwide." Of those, the US ranked seventh-worst with a 3.8% case-fatality ratio — the percentage of deaths out of known cases.</p><p>In terms of mortality rate, calculated as deaths per 100,000 people in a country, <a href="https://coronavirus.jhu.edu/data/mortality">the US ranked third-worst</a>, with 42.8 deaths per 100,000 people, above just the UK and Chile.</p><p>The chart the White House presented, however, used data from the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control that excluded countries with lower mortality rates, like Russia, to make it appear as if the US had one of the lowest death rates in the world.</p>

'I don't think I'm fake news': Fox News' Chris Wallace and Trump spar over misleading claims about US coronavirus death rates

<p><div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table"><div><div class="image on-image"><p class="source"><span>Reuters</span></p><p class="caption">Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook's CEO and chairman.</p></div><p></p></div></div></p><ul class="summary-list"><li><strong>Facebook approved 100 fake political ads -each one claiming to have been to be paid for by a different US senator. </strong></li><li><strong>Earlier this year, Facebook started displaying the name of the politician or entity sponsoring political ads, in a move meant to increase transparency.</strong></li><li><strong>Just a few days earlier, it was revealed that Facebook also approved fake political ads that claimed to be paid for by Vice President Mike Pence, or by "ISIS." In both cases, the ads were submitted as part of a experiment by Vice News.  </strong></li><li><strong>Although Vice didn't actually run the ads, Facebook admitted that neither instance should have occurred. </strong></li></ul><p>There's new reason not to trust the "paid for by" disclaimer on the political ads you see on Facebook.</p><p>Facebook approved 100 fake political ads that claimed to be paid for by every US senator, <a href="https://news.vice.com/en_us/article/xw9n3q/we-posed-as-100-senators-to-run-ads-on-facebook-facebook-approved-all-of-them">submitted by Vice News as part of an experiment</a>. The social network began using the "paid for by" disclaimer in May, as a way to boost transparency in political advertising ahead of November's general election. </p><p>Vice News didn't actually run its fake ads, which it claimed to Facebook were "paid for by" Senator Mitch McConnell and all 99 other United States senators. But with that approval, Facebook would have let Vice run its fake ads alongside real ones. </p><p>To submit a political ad on Facebook, the social network requires a photo ID, the name of your company, and the last four digits of your social security number, all of which Vice says that it provided.</p><p>In general, the "paid for" feature seems vulnerable to bad-faith actors, and this isn't the first time phony ads have made it under Facebook's radar. Just a few days earlier, Vice reported that Facebook had approved <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/facebook-approved-fake-political-ads-isis-mike-pence-report-2018-10">ads that claimed to be paid for by Vice President Mike Pence, and another by "ISIS," also placed by the news site</a> However, an ad submitted under Hillary Clinton's name was rejected, Vice reports. </p><p>Notably, Facebook was quick to reject a fake ad "paid for" by CEO Mark Zuckerberg, Vice reports.</p><p>Facebook did not immediately respond to Business Insider's request for comment. However, it told Vice that none of these fake ads should have been approved by the system, and that it's working on several initiatives to combat misinformation and phony political ads. </p><h3><a href="https://news.vice.com/en_us/article/xw9n3q/we-posed-as-100-senators-to-run-ads-on-facebook-facebook-approved-all-of-them">Read the full Vice News report here&gt;&gt;</a></h3>    <div class="margin-top">        <h3>NOW WATCH: <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/dogs-trained-sniff-hidden-electronics-2018-10">Police dogs trained to sniff out hidden electronics are leading officers to key pieces of evidence in child porn cases and fraud</a></h3>        <div>                    </div>    </div>

Facebook approved 100 phony political ads that were allegedly 'paid for' by every United States senator

<p><div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table"><div><div class="image on-image"><p class="source"><span>Charles Krupa/AP</span></p></div><p></p></div></div></p><ul><li><strong>An Oregon newspaper published details of a case in which a woman accused Mark Cuban of sexual assault.</strong></li><li><strong>No charges were filed in the case, but there were some disturbing details, including a photo a detective reportedly called "significant."</strong></li><li><strong>Rick Carlisle defended Cuban, calling the report the 'most insidious form' of fake news.</strong></li></ul><p><br />Mavericks head coach Rick Carlisle did not mince his words when asked about the <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/mark-cuban-sex-assault-allegation-2018-3" target="_blank" rel="noopener">recent report detailing a 2011 allegation of sexual assault made against team owner Mark Cuban</a>.</p><p>Carlisle was asked about the report after practice on Tursday and called it the worst kind of "fake news."</p><p>"Very sad," Carlisle said (via the Dallas Morning News). "And I view that situation as a baseless and journalistically unethical rehashing of a proven non-event. That's what that is. Have you ever heard the term 'fake news'? This is the most insidious form."</p><p>Earlier this week, an Oregon newspaper published details of a case in which a woman accused Cuban of sexual assault. No charges were filed in the case, but there were some disturbing details, including a photo a detective reportedly called "significant." Cuban emphatically denied the allegation.</p><p>The NBA is reviewing the matter. When Cuban was contacted by Business Insider by email, he wrote, "It didn't happen."</p><p>This report came two weeks after <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/mark-cuban-mavs-alleged-hostile-work-environment-2018-2" target="_blank" rel="noopener">a Sports Illustrated report described the Mavericks' front office as a "hostile work environment" for women</a>. Cuban was not accused of any misconduct in the SI report, but it prompted questions about what he knew, or should have known, as the head of the organization. Cuban fired two employees over the allegations in the report.</p>    <div class="margin-top">        <h3>NOW WATCH: <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/richard-sherman-nfl-responds-to-shut-up-and-dribble-2018-2">Richard Sherman: Sitting behind a news desk doesn't mean you know more than the people you tell to 'shut up and dribble'</a></h3>        <div>                    </div>    </div>

Mavericks coach calls report detailing sexual assault allegations against Mark Cuban the 'most insidious form' of fake news

<p><div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table float_right"><div><div class="image on-image"><p class="source"><span>Richard Drew/AP Photo; Win McNamee/Getty Images</span></p><p class="caption">Donald Trump.</p></div><p></p></div></div>President Donald Trump tweeted on Thursday morning to ask the Senate Intelligence Committee, which is currently investigating Trump's possible collusion with Russia during the 2016 election, to instead look into "Fake <keyword id="6355005" type="COMPANY" weightage="60" keywordseo="News">News</keyword> Networks."</p><p>"Why Isn't the Senate Intel Committee looking into the Fake News Networks in OUR country to see why so much of our news is just made up-FAKE!" tweeted Trump.</p><p>Trump's tweet continues a media offensive that began on Wednesday morning when <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/white-house/tillerson-s-fury-trump-required-intervention-pence-n806451?utm_source=newsletter&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=newsletter_axiosam&amp;stream=top-stories" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">NBC News reported</a> that Secretary of State Rex Tillerson called Trump a "moron."</p><p>After the story, <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/tillerson-trump-moron-resigning-press-conference-2017-10" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Tillerson held a press conference</a> in which he said Trump "is smart," though he did not explicitly deny the report that he called him a moron. Instead, he dismissed the report as "nonsense" that he would not address.</p><p>"The @NBCNews story has just been totally refuted by Sec. Tillerson and @VP Pence. It is #FakeNews," tweeted Trump on Wednesday.</p><p>"It was fake news, it was a totally phoney story," <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/state-department-spokesperson-tillerson-trump-moron-2017-10" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Trump told reporters</a> during a visit to Las Vegas to meet some of the victims of Sunday night's mass shooting. "It was made up by NBC, they just made it up."</p><p>A spokesperson for Tillerson explicitly denied the "moron" quip, but NBC told Business Insider that it stands by its reporting.</p><p>According to the <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/trump-russia-investigation-update-senate-intelligence-committee-2017-10" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Senate Intelligence Committee's latest statement</a>, "the issue of collusion" between the Trump campaign and Russia "is still open." Additionally, an obstruction of justice case may be building against Trump after he fired the head of FBI while the bureau investigated his campaign.</p><p>But the committee also acknowledged that propaganda, or disinformation, had shaped the outcome of the election by infiltrating US social media networks.</p><p>Large tech companies like Facebook, Google, and Twitter, have also <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/las-vegas-shooting-mandalay-bay-facebook-twitter-google-2017-10" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">struggled lately at preventing their products from distributing fake news</a>, but it's unclear if Trump meant to include these companies in what he called "Fake News Networks."</p>    <div class="margin-top">        <h3>NOW WATCH: <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/who-north-korea-dictator-kim-jong-un-wife-ri-sol-ju-military-defense-politics-hermit-kingdom-pyongyang-2017-9">The mysterious life of the wife of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un</a></h3>        <div>                    </div>    </div>

Trump calls on the Senate body investigating his Russia ties to instead probe 'Fake News Networks'

<p><div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table float_right"><div><div class="image on-image"><p class="source"><span>REUTERS/Fabrizio Bensch</span></p><p class="caption">A migrant takes a selfie with German Chancellor Angela Merkel outside a refugee camp near the Federal Office for Migration and Refugees after registration at Berlin's Spandau district, Germany September 10, 2015.</p></div><p></p></div></div>A Syrian refugee in Germany is suing Facebook's European branch and a user of the social network because of fake news, <a href="http://www.faz.net/aktuell/politik/inland/merkel-selfie-fluechtling-zieht-wegen-hetze-bei-facebook-vor-gericht-14618238.html" target="_blank">the Frankfurter Allgemeine reports</a>.</p><p>A picture of Anas Modamani taking a selfie with German Chancellor Angela Merkel was posted all over social media when it was taken in 2015.</p><p>But the comment section below the picture was used to accuse Modamani of crimes he did not commit and to spread fake news.</p><p>What led Modamani to take legal action is, among other things, is the suggestion that he was involved in an attack on a homeless man in Berlin. Seven young men - six Syrians and one Libyan who are now in custody - were suspected of having set the man on fire. The picture of Modamani with Merkel got somehow associated with that case.</p><p>The Facebook user being sued has been accused of sharing a photo montage that linked Modamani to the attack on the homeless man. The false post accusing Modamani of attacking the homeless man has been shared more than 500 times, but according to Facebook does not violate the "community standards."</p><p>Modamani's lawyer, Chan-jo Jun, has said that through the lawsuit he wants Facebook to stop spreading "slanderous fake news."</p><p>This is the second time that Modamani has been accused of committing very serious crimes on the social media site. In the summer, he was accused of being involved in the Brussels bombings that killed 32 people. </p><p>According to Jun, should the case go to court, it would probably be the first time Facebook has appeared in front of a German court because of fake news.</p>    <div class="margin-top">        <h3>NOW WATCH: <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/middle-seats-airline-sliding-design-video-2016-12">Airplane designers have a brilliant idea for the middle seat</a></h3>        <div>            <div>        <div class="ooyala-video-player" data-video-autoplay="false" data-video-id="NoeHRmNDE6N-cSWIqmFSRD9PkKQAaaV2" data-player-variable="ooyalapopvideo" id="ooyalaplayer_popvideo" style="width:1280px;height:720px"></div>        </div>        </div>            </div>

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