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  • Drudge, Facebook, NYT readers could face libel suits for sharing 'fake news' [Former Dem FEC Chair]

    10/19/2017 5:49:01 AM PDT · by markomalley · 34 replies
    Washington Examiner ^ | 10/18/17 | Paul Bedard
    Political content on the internet, paid or not, should face substantial federal regulation to eliminate undefined "disinformation," and users of platforms and news feeds, from Facebook, to Twitter, to the Drudge Report and even New York Times, could be punished for sharing "fake news" from those sites, the former Democratic chair of the FEC is urging.In a broad proposal that adds threatening libel suits to regulatory plans already pushed by Democrats on the Federal Election Commission, ex-chair Ann Ravel believes that there is support for expanded regulation in the wake of reports foreign governments spent $100,000 on 2016 political ads...