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Policy Matters Ohio: Facebook and Google Weaken Local News, Help Spread Disinformation
October 17, 2019
COLUMBUS, Ohio, Oct. 17 -- Policy Matters Ohio, a 501(c)3 non-profit and nonpartisan state policy research institute, issued the following news release:

Facebook and Google take in the majority of digital ad revenues, at the expense of newspapers. At the same time, studies show they are filling the void they helped create with disinformation.

Appearing before a Senate Judiciary Committee field hearing (https://www.policymattersohio.org/research-policy/fair-economy/democ . . .

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