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Welcome to Ad Age’s Wake-Up Call, our daily roundup of advertising, marketing, media and digital-related news. What people are talking about today: As news continues to unfold about the Las Vegas massacre, both Google and Facebook have been caught actively promoting fake news stories on the tragedy. Forbes writes that this “underscores the ongoing failure of the internet’s largest news platforms to manage misinformation,” and reveals, “Facebook’s ‘Trending Topic’ page for the shooting directed users toward more false reports, including stories by Russian propaganda site Sputnik.”

The Guardian adds that Facebook’s “Safety Check” page, which is supposed to help people connect with loved ones during the crisis, ended up “briefly promoting a story that said the shooter had ‘Trump-hating’ views, along with links to a number of other hoaxes and scams.” At the same time, Google users who searched Geary Danley (falsely named as the shooter) were at one point directed to the 4chan thread filled with false claims.” Facebook said it is “working to fix the issue.”

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