Media’s Next Challenge: Overcoming the Threat of Fake News – The New York Times

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Media’s Next Challenge: Overcoming the Threat of Fake News

Plunging print ad sales and an explosion of online outlets spreading inaccurate information threaten to diminish, and in some cases extinguish, the impact of traditional media companies.

Link: http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/07/business/media/medias-next-challenge-overcoming-the-threat-of-fake-news.html?partner=rss&emc=rss&_r=0

The internet-borne forces that are eating away at print advertising are enabling a host of faux-journalistic players to pollute the democracy with dangerously fake news items.