As their first move, social media companies like Facebook could stop allowing their ad services to be used as freewheeling experimental laboratories for examining their users
European Union authorities are urging Facebook, Google and Twitter to work harder to combat fake news ahead of upcoming bloc-wide parliamentary elections.
The EU's executive commissioners said that while the US Internet giants have made some progress, they need to pick up the pace of their work fighting disinformation.
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