published May 28th 2017, 8:37 am, by Craig Gordon and Jennifer Jacobs (Bloomberg) —Donald Trump lashed out at the “fake news” media in a series of Twitter messages on Sunday after wrapping up his first foreign trip as president — a nine-day excursion from Saudi Arabia to Sicily — without

published Apr 25th 2017, 9:00 am, by Mark Bergen (Bloomberg) —Google isn’t planning to rid fake news from its search results — but it’s trying to purge it from the top. The Alphabet Inc. company is making a rare, sweeping change to the algorithm behind its powerful search engine to

published Mar 27th 2017, 2:00 pm, by Faye Flam (Bloomberg View) — People aren’t getting dumber, despite what a prolific writer of fake news told the Washington Post last fall, but something funny is going on with American media. There’s been an apparent surge in fabricated stories, while the president