# Incident I00039: MerkelFacebook

* **Summary:** Top stories about Merkel in both German and English were negative and misleading, most published from fake news sites.

* **incident type**: incident

* **Year started:** 2017

* **Countries:** Unknown , Germany

* **Found via:** OII

* **Date added:** 2019-02-24


| Reference(s) |
| --------- |
| [https://www.buzzfeed.com/albertonardelli/hyperpartisan-sites-and-facebook-pages-are-publishing-false](https://www.buzzfeed.com/albertonardelli/hyperpartisan-sites-and-facebook-pages-are-publishing-false) |

 

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