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    Google reportedly serves fake ads to fact-checking sites

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    Rob LeFebvre
    Rob LeFebvre
    10.18.2017

    It's not just Facebook that has a fake news advertising problem. Google also found evidence of Russian influence in the most recent US presidential election, and reportedly set up anti-Muslim ads (which it subsequently shut down). Now, according to a report in The New York Times, fake ads that look like news are appearing on sites that actively try to counter fake news, including Politifact and Snopes.