‘Facebook and Google are facing fresh calls for scrutiny over the way they place adverts beside ‘fake news’, extremist videos and pornography.

MPs and the News Media Association have expressed alarm that the technology the online giants use fuels propaganda sites and starves legitimate news organisations of funding.

The row comes the day after Facebook was exposed for refusing to remove dozens of sexualised images of children from its website.’

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