codyg1985’s Think Tank

Google News is a service that grabs news stories from many different sources and displays them to users. Unfortunately, some of those sources are not authentic, and what’s worse is that some of those sources are prank websites that posts fake news stories for humor.

A blogger noticed that the news aggregator was displaying links to press releases from a “presidential contender” named Daniel Imperator. The press releases commented on events such as a plane crash in Chicago and the death of Will Ferrell.

Google News should more closely monitor for such pranks, and revamp their system to remove any blogs and non-official news sites from the roster.