Monday, March 21, 2022

How will Russia’s Fake News Law affect Google's bottom line?

Russia has passed a new law that criminalized the spread of news that is not approved by the Russian Defense Ministry. Any other news contradicting could be determined as false information and punishable to up to 15 years of prison and $14,000 USD. How will these new laws affect Google that has a large share of on-line video content that is user generated content? With the large amount of videos being uploaded every second of every day, how can Google police all content that may contradict the messages from the Russian Defense Ministry? 



Read more at:

https://www.wsj.com/articles/russia-targets-media-outlets-with-fake-news-law-blocks-facebook-11646442530


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