Google, Facebook, and Pew are going after cyber con jobs and fake news


  • TECH
  • Friday, 10 Feb 2017

A Facebook icon is shown on a Samsung Galaxy III mobile phone in this photo illustration in Encinitas, California, January 30, 2013. REUTERS/Mike Blake

Cyber con jobs are on the rise, wreaking havoc on consumers and the social fabric, new evidence from Google, Facebook and the Pew Research Centre argues. 

Google took down 1.7 billion deceptive and shocking ads in 2016 that violated its advertising policies, the company said last month. That's double the level of a year ago. 

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