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False News of the Vegas Attack Spread on Google, Facebook


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Las Vegas Strip

Las Vegas Metro Police and medical workers block off an intersection after a mass shooting at a music festival on the Las Vegas Strip on Sunday, Oct. 1, 2017.

Credit: Steve Marcus/Las Vegas Sun via AP

False news that erroneously named a suspect in the deadly Las Vegas mass shooting on Sunday spread on Google and Facebook before the services removed the posts in question, the two companies acknowledged Monday.

From The Associated Press
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