Police vehicles are seen near the site of shooting in Las Vegas, the United States, on Oct. 2, 2017. At least 50 people were killed and over 200 others wounded in a mass shooting at a concert Sunday night outside of the Mandalay Bay Hotel in Las Vegas, Nevada. (Huang Chao/Xinhua/Zuma Press/TNS)
If the bloody massacre in Las Vegas was a test of the ability of Google, Facebook and Twitter to stop fake news, all three failed miserably.
Google dredged up a search result from Internet cesspool 4chan that named the wrong man as the killer. Facebook's "Safety Check" feature confronted users with far-right blogs that spat out false information about victims and the shooter. Twitter coughed up false rumors and "missing" people who weren't connected to the slaughter.
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